"Butterfield does in ninety minutes what it would take many writers a lifetime to do -- peel back the layers of unique individuals to make you understand how they feel." North Arkansas News
"A prolific writer, Butterfield confidently switches among settings and does frequent about faces in tone. Zippy and hilarious." LA Times
Mandy Levin, Benjamin Matthes, Theatre Tribe, LA
Life Expectancy
Deborah Puette and Brian Rohan Kim Shively and Dorothea Harahan Lori Okin and Gino Anthony Pesi
Originally produced at the Laguna Playhouse in 2008.
"Intimate triple two-hander boasts enough intriguing characters and plot twists to satisfy a narrative-hungry audience..." Variety
"The playwright has an engaging, easy tone, and she's refreshingly frank about the ways women let their desire tie them into knots." LA TIMES
Tisha Terrasini Banker, Derek Manson and Anna Laurie Rives.
Ellen Parker, John Christopher Jones, CB, Ray Vierta, Arabella Field, Sam Tsoutsouvas.
"What is the playwright's equivalent of the novelist's "unputdownable'- 'ungetupable' perhaps? Butterfield ... deserves some such accolade." -
New York Post
"A thoughtful, balanced, cleanly structured work. Ms. Butterfield has a gift for clear exposition that many other playwrights would benefit from." -
New York Times
"A richly complex story about what people are willing to live with in marriages that aren't perfect. Under Evan Yionoulis' sensitive direction even the children come off as totally believable."
New York Newsday
Snowing at Delphi
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Scenes from the original production
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BROWNSTONE.
Jeff Allyn and Catherine Butterfield, Pasadena Playhouse
Corrie Vickers, Pete Gardner
Drama Desk nominee, Outstanding New Play
A couple navigates the maddening waters of their later-in-life pregnancy. "A laugh out loud hoot!" Malibu Times
Where The Truth Lies Published by Samuel French: info@concordtheatricals.com
Amy Tribbey and Matthew Walker, Arkansas Repertory
Robin Rose and Catherine Butterfield,
Pasadena Playhouse Production.
Adam Ferrara and Peggy Scott, original production at Abingdon Theatre, NY
You never know what goes on inside someone else's marriage.
Ellen Parker and Catherine Butterfield in the original Manhattan Theatre Club production
Josh Banday, Tisha Terrasini-Banker and Derek Manson
PUBLISHED PLAYS
Drama Desk Nominee, Best New Play. Winner of New York Newsday/Oppenheimer award.
"Refreshing talent... In a manner related to Tom Stoppard and John Guare, the work deals enticingly with truth and fiction... a vibrant reflection on life, art and friendship.....a striking accomplishment." NEW YORK TIMES
“An incontestable achievement,” THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE
“For the actress and the playwright to be 'Joined at the Head,' as they are in Catherine Butterfield's fine, funny play of that title at the Manhattan Theater Club at City Center is a feat tantamount to splitting one's personality. That Butterfield does it successfully is a tribute to her many talents as a writer and actress.An elegant off-Broadway debut for a fine playwright and actress who is a name to watch for in either capacity.” UPI
"A shockingly funny family comedy," Stagebuddy.com
"Funny, clever, and plays all the right notes." Theater Pizzaz
"Skims along with witty lightness over a thoughtful overtone," Curtain Up
"A goofy burst of fun," Theatre is Easy
Joined at the Head
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"Not since Steel Magnolias has there been a new comedy as laughable and loveable. The humor swells from smiles to chuckles to guffaws, and sentiment waxes from warm to glowing." New York Daily News
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Arabella Field, Sam Tsoutsouvas in the original WPA Theatre New York production
Arye Gross, director Ron West, Ann Gee Byrd, CB, Ben Schenkman and C.J. Wilson in NY staged reading
LIFE IN THE TREES
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IT HAS TO BE YOU
THE SLEEPER
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Winner of Kaufman and Hart Award for Best New Comedy
A sheltered but unhappy housewife falls in love with her son's tutor..... then begins to suspect he's a terrorist.
Catherine Butterfield, author of the eloquent "Joined at the Head," is a playwright with a near-perfect touch: Her wry reversals of plot and audience expectations deliver compassionate takes on contemporary contradictions and confusions. "Life in the Trees" is a gem, achingly funny and true. CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"An amusing exegesis of urban angst, "Life in the Trees" places Catherine Butterfield among the premiere ranks of disaffected playwrights whose humor derives from endearingly neurotic characters ravaged by the killing stress of big city life." LA TIMES
"Butterfield again proves herself a superior playwright, a master of delicious dialogue, with heart beneath the humor." VARIETY
Josh Brolin and Melissa Hurst in the original GeVa Theatre Production, Rochester, NY
TO THE BONE
ran in October 2022 at the Open Fist Theatre in Los Angeles then re-opened for an extended run in March 2023 at the Theatre 68 Arts Complex in No. Hollywood.
"A great story and funny, stunning dialogue comes in a gift called TO THE BONE, a drama cloaked in a comedy... the Boston set family story has enough twists and turns to keep you both guessing and caring." - STAGE AND CINEMA
"A gem.... an explosion of humor, poignancy, twists and turns performed with heart and skill." -- Colorado Boulevard
"Endlessly captivating, rib-ticklingly funny, profoundly moving dramedy." - Stage Scene LA
"...a truly excellent play. Funny, suspenseful, gorgeously written and utterly human." NoHo Arts Review
The Books, Plays, and Films of Catherine Butterfield.