Good Luck Gettin’ Back to Texas

An original Dramatic Readers Theater performance
Celebrating the Witte Museum’s exhibition, Lonesome Dove: Photographs by Bill Wittliff

Tuesday, November 10, 5 pm

Witte Museum | 3801 Broadway | San Antonio, TX 78215

Free & Open to the Public

This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed CBS mini-series Lonesome Dove. The Witte Museum will celebrate the beauty and influence of this now classic Texas tale with Lonesome Dove: Photographs by Bill Wittliff on view from September 19, 2009 through January 3, 2010 in the Piper Memorial Wing.

Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel came to the small screen in 1989 via the vision and talents of its screenwriter and executive producer Bill Wittliff. In addition to writing the script and producing, Wittliff captured the breadth of this masterful western in over one hundred still photographs taken during filming.

The photographs will be given voice and character in Gemini Ink’s Dramatic Readers Theater production, entitled Good Luck Gettin’ Back to Texas. An award-winning photographer and screenwriter, Wittliff and his wife Sally are founders of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, San Marcos. The collections comprise the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection and the Southwestern Writers Collection, both exploring artistic process as it relates to place.

Good Luck Gettin’ Back to Texas is free and open to the public on Free Tuesday at the Witte. Please join us for this unique fusion of music, theater, and literature in the spirit of Texas.