The director and the playwright talk memory, loss and rewriting their latest Broadway play. Plus: the joys and pitfalls of ...

Jez Butterworth’s 2012 play The River, the first he produced after his blockbuster hit Jerusalem, sits less easily in today’s ...

The New York premiere of Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes, opened on Broadway ...

Sam Mendes directed two James Bond movies, “Skyfall” (2012) and “Spectre” (2015), and he doubts he’ll return to the 007 ...

One of the most dynamic theatrical duos of the modern era, director Sam Mendes and playwright Jez Butterworth, return to ...

In Jez Butterworth’s melancholy drama and David Henry Hwang’s mischievously postmodern play, stardom is both a lure and a lie ...

Jez Butterworth’s new play, “The Hills of California,” tells a familiar story of showbiz ambitions and sibling rivalries.

The playwright Jez Butterworth recently had perhaps the most eventful recording session in the history of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. “In the course of this call, I have ...

But she did “burst into tears” reading Jez Butterworth’s rewrite of his new Broadway play, which left her with 10 days “to ...

The playwright Jez Butterworth recently had perhaps the most eventful recording session in the history of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. But even with the occasional diversion ...

In Jez Butterworth’s compelling new play, four girls trained to sing close harmony wind up as acrimonious adults.