‘the Hills Of California’ Review: Sam Mendes And Jez Butterworth Deliver A Dream Of A Broadway Drama

Gordon Cox, Variety
Sun, 09/29/2024 - 7:00pm

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. Though this densely-packed, 17-actor play is more family-focused in its themes than Butterworth’s previous, stunning epics “Jerusalem” and “The Ferryman,” […]

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