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Jez Butterworth

April 2024

  • Seen as prey … the Webb sisters in The Hills of California.

    ‘This is more than a #MeToo drama’: Jez Butterworth on his new play – and punching Harvey Weinstein

    The playwright reveals how his clashes with the sexual predator haunt the most disturbing scenes of The Hills of California, his latest Olivier-nominated play about teenage singing sisters trying to make it big. Warning: contains spoilers

February 2024

  • Laura Donnelly's character sits at the piano talking to the younger sisters

    The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

  • Blackpool’s famous tower. The new Showtime museum will showcase the resort’s entertainment heritage.

    ‘It’s about restoring pride’: can Blackpool use its saucy image to win back the crowds?

  • Jez Butterworth

    How working with Weinstein haunted playwright Jez Butterworth and inspired his work

  • Swivels between past and present … Nicola Turner, Nancy Allsop, Lara McDonnell and Sophia Ally in The Hills of California.

    The Hills of California review – Jez Butterworth’s fractious family of singing sisters

November 2022

  • Dominic West as rince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Crown; The English; Mammals; I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

  • James Corden and Melia Kreiling in Mammals.

    TV review
    Mammals review – James Corden is a loutish manbaby in this lame, risible drama

October 2022

  • James Corden

    ‘I think I can improve greatly’: James Corden on inadequacy, nerves and his return to TV acting

  • ‘A hallucinatory experience’ … Frances Barber with Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend.

    ‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

May 2022

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    Will mass trespasses make the Tories reconsider burying their land reform plan?

    Tim Adams
  • Clockwise from centre: Mark Rylance, Kemi Awoderu, Ed Kear, Mackenzie Crook and Charlotte O’Leary in Jerusalem.

    The week in theatre: Jerusalem; The Corn Is Green; Marys Seacole

April 2022

  • Charlotte Higgins

    Jerusalem is back, and channelling England’s rough magic once again

    Charlotte Higgins
  • Kemi Awoderu, Mark Rylance and Charlotte O’Leary, with, at back, Ed Kear and Mackenzie Crook in Jerusalem.

    Jerusalem review – Mark Rylance’s riveting return as ‘Rooster’ Byron

  • ‘Why are we allowing our government to cut arts education?’ … Mark Rylance at the curtain call for Jerusalem on opening night this week.

    Mark Rylance calls out Tory arts cuts in new Jerusalem programme

  • A proper night out … a scene from Jerusalem at the Royal Court in 2009.

    Is Jerusalem still the play of the century? Top playwrights give their verdicts

February 2022

  • ‘Amazingly chill’ … Adiya Ijaha as Lyra in The Book of Dust.

    They have agents, do auditions and can still steal a scene after filling their nappies – meet the baby actors

    Rafael, star of The Ferryman, has been paying taxes since the age of one, while Adiya received glowing reviews for her Lyra in The Book of Dust. Say coochy-coo to the babies treading the boards

January 2022

  • Mark Rylance.

    Mark Rylance: ‘Theatre is a thousand times more enjoyable than film’

    The actor made a mere six movies in lockdown but it’s his own play and his return as ‘Rooster Byron’ in Jerusalem that is getting him really excited

August 2021

  • David Morrissey as Aulus in Britannia.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: David Morrissey returns in Jez Butterworth’s Britannia

    Morrissey and Mackenzie Crook continue to fight it out three years after the Roman invasion. Plus: Paralympics Opening Ceremony Live. Here’s what to watch this evening

April 2020

  • Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Apollo theatre in London in 2010.

    Mark Rylance to return as Rooster Byron in Jerusalem revival

    Jez Butterworth’s acclaimed play about English myths is to be revived in 2021, directed by Ian Rickson

November 2019

  • Dafne Keen as Lyra and Ruth Wilson as Mrs Coulter in His Dark Materials.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: His Dark Materials; Britannia; Dublin Murders and more

    An inspired adaptation of His Dark Materials appeals to newbies and Pullman devotees alike, while Dublin Murders rewarded even those who had lost the plot
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