Following its Huntington Theatre engagement, the Jez Butterworth drama will travel to its namesake, California.

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Hills of California @ Huntington Theatre Company, Art @ Music Box Theatre, Slanted Floors @ 1006 Manhattan Ave in Brooklyn, The Sound of Musi…

The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.

Following its Boston engagement, the Jez Butterworth drama will make its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep.

Five outstanding new plays and four equally outstanding revivals have been singled out this Broadway season! Nominees for Best Play are: English (Sanaz Toossi), The Hills of California (Jez Butterworth), John …

This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills of California, Dany…

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain…

Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Snook beat out fellow nominees Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California, Mia Farro…

Best Musical Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death Becomes Her Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Best Play English The Hills of California John Proctor Is the Villain Oh, Mary! Purpose B…

Now for the second half of my predictions for Sunday’s Tony Awards honoring the best of the 2024-25 Broadway season — which ended at the end of April . It was indeed one of the richest and most competitiv…

The 2024-25 Broadway season — which ended April 30 — was one of the richest and most competitive seasons in years. While there hasn't been been a megahit of the likes of “Hamilton” or “The Producers,�…

How one actor conquered the dual role of a mother and her daughter in Jez Butterworth’s latest drama.

The 78th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 18, 2025. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals and plays. Which Bes…

The Jez Butterworth play is nominated for seven Tonys, including one for Donnelly's heartbreaking performance.

The winners of the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced in a ceremony at NYU Skirball on June 1. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess co-hosted the event, which celebrated the 2024-25 season of Broadway, o…

The winners of the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced in a ceremony at NYU Skirball on June 1. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess co-hosted the event, which celebrated the 2024-25 season of Broadway, o…

Manhattan Theatre Club’s leaders, Lynne Meadow, Chris Jennings and Nicki Hunter, discuss the nonprofit’s programming strategy.

“I will admit, on the first day of the read-through of the new Act 3, I had a minor panic attack,” recounts Laura Donnelly of bringing the play The Hills of California to New York. Donnelly earned great acc…

It's been eight months since Laura Donnelly began performances on Broadway in The Hills of California, and she's taking a beat now to look back on her incredible journey with the play. A Tony nomination will do…

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year’s list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Looking at who wasn’t no…

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With so many great musicals, plays and revivals this season, there is simply no way that every deserving person and production could make the cut. I am glad I'm not on the nominating committee! But still, there…

The countdown to the Tony Awards is officially on! New musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending lead the pack with 10 each. Close behind with seven are Dead Outlaw, Sunset B…

The 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced on Thursday, May 1 by Tony Award winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. The nominations for competitive Tony Awards are: Best Play English, Author: Sanaz Toos…

The 2025 Tony Award nominations, announced by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce on May 1, reflect a Broadway season that celebrated ambition in all its forms. Out front with 10 nominations are Buena Vista Soci…

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce announced the nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards this morning on CBS and NY1. Here are the nominees: Best Musical “Buena Vista Social Club” “Dead Outlaw” “Death Beco…

Jeremy Jordan in “Floyd Collins” First, a big thanks to Adam Feldman for setting me straight (so to speak) on a few eligibility issues.. I rus…

The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I’m exhausted. But it’s the kind of good exhaustion that comes from doing some…

It's Awards Season! Today the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 20…

Today, The Huntington Theatre announced their upcoming 2025/2026 season including favorites from Broadway and world premieres including the sixth installment of Boston’s city-wide Ufot Family Cycle. The Hunt…

The Massachusetts company's seven-show season will center on themes of legacy, family, and what we most value in our lives.

Nominations for the 2025 Drama League Awards were announced Tuesday by current Broadway stars Sarah Hyland (The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club). Winners will be announced May 19 at …

Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. With only three months to go until the 2025 nominations are announced, we’ve recon…

By: David Sheward January 31, 2025: Here we go again. It’s time for yet another dysfunctional family reunion. Cult of Love, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater after a production at Berkeley Re…

Casting is complete for Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The theatrical prequel to the Netflix science fiction-horror series will begin performances at Broadway's Marquis Theatre on March 28 with an officia…

Some theater-goers lust after seeing big-name stars and there will be plenty of them for those folks to see in the upcoming spring season, from theater-grown ones like Idina Menzel in Redwood, the original eco-…

Measure a year in Broadway shows. Take a look back on the Broadway shows of 2024, including: Prayer for the French Republic, Days of Wine and Roses, Doubt, The Notebook, An Enemy of the People, Water for Elepha…

When they hug in the rain in “The Notebook.” When they fight in the rain in “The Outsiders.” When the fourth sibling finally arrives in “The Hills of California.” When the fourth sibling finally arr…

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The Hills of California Intersects driving ambition, dreams and family relationships deteriorating over time; Catch it now before it closes next month because with a cast of 22 and a challenging script, this su…

Patrick Pacheco explores two bold new theatrical works examining female rage through the lens of myth and melodrama. First, the stellar cast of Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California" - Laura Donnelly, Ophe…

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Ta’Rea Campbell, cast member of “Hills of California” at the Broadhurst Theatre. “Class Notes” actively covers New York’s current theater season on, off, and …

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today to confirm the eligibility status of eleven Broadway productions for the 2024-2025 season. This was the first time this season that the Tony Awards Administrat…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today, for the first time this season, to confirm the eligibility status of 11 Broadway productions for the 2024-25 season. The productions discussed were: Home; Oh,…

Correspondent Charlie Cooper takes a stroll with THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA star Helena Wilson. Get tickets to THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA: https://www.broadway.com/shows/the-hills-of-california/

Helena Wilson is making her Broadway debut in Jez Butterworth's generational family play The Hills of California. She reprises her West End performance as youngest Webb sister Jill, the self-sacrificing, reli…

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Helena Wilson stars on Broadway with Laura Donnelly, Leanne Best and Ophelia Lovibond in Jez Butterworth’s new hit play, the Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes.

Watch a scene from 'The Hills of California' on Broadway. The three Webb sisters catch up at the childhood home as they anticipate the arrival of their estranged sister, Joan.

The New York premiere of Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes, is currently playing Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre following a limited engagement at the Harold Pint…

In Act Three of The Hills of California, the actress Laura Donnelly makes what might be the most thrilling character entrance on Broadway this year. In an empty parlor in the middle of the night, a jukebox sti…

Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens chats with THE HILL'S OF CALIFORNIA’s real-life couple playwright Jez Butterworth and star Laura Donnelly. Get tickets to THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA: https://www.broad…

This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal takes you from Tenth Street to Sunset Boulevard to meet Broadway's newest stars. Read below to find out what's on tap.  Julianna Margulies has returned to Broa…

Last month playwright Jez Butterworth brought his latest work, “The Hills of California,” to Broadway. The haunting family drama explores the relationships between four sisters and their dying mother in the…

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Disney magic is alive and well at the New Amsterdam Theatre where Aladdin has been going strong for over 10 years. And who better to dish the trade secrets than Adi Roy, the musical's resident street rat? In A …

In the fourth and final episode of A Whole New Vlog, Adi shares his thoughts on Joker: Folie à Deux, admires the wall of headshots at the New Amsterdam, gets hyped about Broadway's THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA and …

Sam Mendes calls "The Hills of California," his latest collaboration with playwright Jez Butterworth, "one of the hardest plays that I have ever directed."

“I’m smaller in real life,” Laura Donnelly tells me after I admit that I didn’t recognize her, standing pensively by the entrance to the midtown bar where we’re meeting, scanning the room. Indeed, the…

Jez Butterworth’s latest play, “Hills of California” moves so smoothly that you are never aware of its 2 hours and 45 minutes running time. Arriving on Broadway after a successful London run, the drama is…

In a theatrical era when "full-length" works often fail to exceed 90 minutes, the English playwright Jez Butterworth dares to dubiously dramatize for approximately twice that span. His previous Broadway epic, "…

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Our Town, The Hills of California, The Counter @ the Laura Pels Theatre, InunDATEd @ York Theatre Company, Mint Theater Company’s production of …

By: Samuel L. Leiter October 12, 2024: The Hills of California, now at the Broadhurst Theatre, is British playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth’s sixth play to transfer from London to New York, and t…

By: Paulanne Simmons October 12, 2024: Eugene O’Neill meets Gypsy, topped with a heavy Northwest Britain accent (sometimes unintelligible) in Jez Butterworth’s newest drama, The Hills of California, wh…

Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes bring their latest large-scale family drama to Broadway with typically exceptional results. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: The Hills of California at the Broadhurst The…

The unendurable passage of time haunts both plays. The post The Past Is Always Present: ‘The Hills of California’ and ‘Our Town’ on Broadway appeared first on Slant Magazine.

What is a song? A song is a dream. The post The Hills of California appeared first on The Front Row Center.

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Yellow Face, The Hills of California, McNeal, Preview – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ Kennedy Center, TOSOS (The Other Side of Si…

It kind of makes sense that so many people are drawing comparisons betweenThe Hills of California, the new Jez Butterworth play that opened this week at the Broadhurst Theatre; and Gypsy, the classic Jule Styne…

October 5, 2024 Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you like a play that starts slowly and takes its time setting up characters and the world in which they live, then builds inexorably to a quietly devastati…

The New York premiere of Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes, has opened on Broadway. Watch the cast discuss the opening, as well as guests arriving to discuss the play.

Spoiler alert: The Hills of California does not in fact take place in the hills of California. The company of Jez Butterworth's play is now in previews, but before they reached the Broadhurst Theatre, they met …

The Hills of California are alive on Broadway! Jez Butterworth's new play celebrated its opening night earlier this week at the Broadhurst Theatre. Watch as we take you inside the big opening night with the ent…

Looking for all the latest info on one of Broadway's hottest shows? BroadwayWorld has the full scoop on everything that you need to know about The Hills of California on Broadway.

This week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal, we're featuring some of Broadway's newest arrivals. Plus, a few longer-running fan favorites get another look.  Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California …

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Playwright Jez Butterworth and the stars of THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA talk about the new family drama on opening night. Get tickets to THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA: https://www.broadway.com/shows/the-hills-of-califo…