Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel

Red Hot Patriot was produced by Austin Playhouse as a virtual play in October 2020. For the first time, Cyndi Williams will perform as the Texas icon for a live audience. Following each performance will be a live Q&A with Williams.

Texan political journalist Molly Ivins was a sharp-witted and bestselling author of Bushwacked, an in-depth analysis of the George W. Bush Administration. She began her journalism career in 1967 at the Minneapolis Tribune, where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. She then became editor of the liberal biweekly magazine The Texas Observer in the early 1970s. From there, Ivins worked at the New York Times from 1976-1982 before spending ten years with the Dallas Times Herald. Molly Ivins became the most widely read self-proclaimed “pain the ass to whatever powers come to be.”