Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California," directed by Sam Mendes, rises above a strong New York season of playwriting.

One of the most dynamic theatrical duos of the modern era, director Sam Mendes and playwright Jez Butterworth, return to Broadway this season with the new work, The Hills of California.

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

It’s a splintering that is presented in two different decades courtesy of Jez Butterworth’s searing new play, The Hills of California, now playing at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre. The impetus for the sibling gathering in Blackpool,

Is there a more dependable set-up for family drama than the gathering of long-estranged siblings? Last season’s dark and wonderful Appropriate proved there was plenty of life in Pinter’s old Homecoming trick,

Jez Butterworth's ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama "The Hills of California" straddles dual worlds of dreams and reality as it shuttles between two pivotal time periods in the lives of the Webb women.