The last time a new drama with this breadth of scope and ambition appeared on Broadway was seven years ago. That was Mr. Butterworth's 'Jerusalem,' in which a small-time, middle-aged country drug ...

Buoyed by multiple awards in London, Sam Mendes' production of the boisterous new Jez Butterworth play 'The Ferryman,' set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, hits Broadway with a 21-member cast ...

Police checkpoints in the street. Helicopters overhead around the clock. The necessity, in certain parts of town, to give a fake last name if anyone asked, because her real last name would tip them ...

Also new to the cast are Fred Applegate (The Last Ship, The Producers) as Uncle Patrick Carney, Ralph Brown (Gemini Man, Withnail and I) as Muldoon, Sean Delaney (Rabbit Hole, The Ferryman in the West ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Butterworth, an Englishman, didn’t set out to write a play set during the Troubles; if anything, he told me, it felt like “a ...

The buzz for Broadway’s The Ferryman has been strong since its original production at London’s Royal Court Theatre and has grown to a roar with the production’s transfer to Broadway. What The Ferryman ...

Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman,” which opened with a howling roar of cacophonous humanity Sunday night on Broadway, packs more juicy and prophetic Anglo-Irish storytelling into a fantastic single ...

2019 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Play Sam Mendes 2019 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Tom Glynn-Carney 2019 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Sound Design in a Play ...

Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play, ended its limited run Broadway on Sunday as a hit: Producers announced that the acclaimed production has recouped its ...