Butler, 36, was accused of causing "catastrophic" head injuries which killed little Ellie at the family home in 2013 News Steve Robson and Sam Webb 11:29, 21 Jun 2016Updated 19:30, 21 Jun 2016 Ben ...

North Coast Repertory Theatre continues its wholly live Season 40 by shining a light on a little-known chapter of the Civil War. Written by Richard Strand, Ben Butler is part comedy, part history and ...

2 WAITRESS Will Embark on 10th Anniversary North American Tour This Fall 3 MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL Launches 25th Anniversary North American Tour Written by Richard Strand, BEN BUTLER is part comedy, ...

Talk about your controversial characters. The real-life historical figure who inspired the 2014 play, “Ben Butler,” was Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818-1893, a sometime Democrat who voted 57 times to ...

Boca Stage brings to life the lunacy of military bureaucracy in the critically lauded Ben Butler by Richard Strand. Part comedy, part history, this play is inspired by real-life figures. The plot ...

For the Washington Stage Guild's final production of its 2022-2023 season, the Undercroft Theater has been dressed up in dark wood, Civil War maps, and American flags. It is the office of a Union Army ...

Ben Butler now playing at North Coast Rep through November 21st is based on a true historical event from the Civil War. Instead of rifles, this play takes on this historical battle with witty repartee ...

When an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow the letter of the law or make a game-changing move that ...

Many of us would try to humor a major general who held our life in his hands. Not so Shepard Mallory, a character in Washington Stage Guild’s entertaining “Ben Butler.” A smart, gutsy laborer who has ...

On the page, Richard Strand’s play “Ben Butler” has an audacious plot. It’s a sometimes wacky comedy about a runaway slave negotiating for his life with a Union Army general at the dawn of the Civil ...