The Hills of California
September 12 – October 12, 2025
Written by Jez Butterworth
Directed by Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco
In association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
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Approximate Run Time: TBD
Content Advisories: TBD
Notable Dates:
Opening Night: Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00 pm
Audio Described: Saturday, October 4th at 2:00 pm →
Open Caption: Tuesday, October 7th at 7:00 pm →
Synopsis:
Internationally renowned Olivier and Tony Award–winning playwright Jez Butterworth (The Ferryman, Jerusalem) weaves the compelling, tender, and savagely funny tale of the four adult Webb sisters’ homecoming to the seaside guest house where they grew up. As girls, their fierce and ambitious mother Veronica trained them for a singing career à la The Andrews Sisters. Now adults, the sisters must reconsider the choices their mother made, the nostalgic call of youthful harmonies, and the unbreakable bonds of family. Critically acclaimed on Broadway and the West End, The Hills of California will be seen in a new production at The Huntington, directed by Loretta Greco (The Triumph of Love, Prayer for the French Republic).
Cast & Crew:
Allison Jean White
Veronica
Allison Jean White
Allison Jean White Broadway: Man and Boy (Roundabout). Off Broadway: Party Face (City Center); The Shaughraun (Irish Rep); Santa Doesn’t Come to the Holiday Inn (EST). Regional: The Whistleblower (Denver Center); King Charles III (A.C.T., Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Realistic Joneses, The Circle, Travesties, The Imaginary Invalid, The Real Thing (A.C.T.); Disgraced (Arizona Theatre Company); Heartbreak House (Berkeley Rep); Orwell in America (Northern Stage); The Odd Couple (Virginia Stage Company); The Crowd You’re In With, Tir na nÓg (Magic Theatre); Red Light Winter (WHAT); Uncle Vanya (Living Room Theatre); Abigail’s Party (SF Playhouse).
Amanda Kristin Nichols
Gloria
Amanda Kristin Nichols
Amanda Kristin Nichols Off Broadway: Three Sisters (The Sheen Center). Regional: Advice, Bad Books (Florida Studio Theatre – NNPN Rolling World Premiere); Noises Off (Bucks County Playhouse); Let There Be Love, The Steel Man (Penguin Rep); The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Great Gatsby (Bay Street Theater).
Aimee Doherty
Ruby / Mrs. Smith
Aimee Doherty
Aimee Doherty (she/her) The Huntington: Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music. Regional: Hello Dolly!, Into the Woods [Elliot Norton Award], On the Town [Elliot Norton Award], Thirst (Lyric Stage); Far from Heaven [Elliot Norton Award], A Man of No Importance (SpeakEasy Stage); Hairspray [Elliot Norton Award] (Wheelock Family Theatre). aimeedoherty.net
Karen Killeen
Jillian
Karen Killeen
Karen Killeen (she/her) Off Broadway: The Dead, 1904 (Irish Repertory Theatre). Regional: Pride and Prejudice (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Dr Ride’s American Beach House (Yale Cabaret).
Kate Fitzgerald
Young Joan
Kate Fitzgerald
Kate Fitzgerald (she/her) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza. Regional: The Crucible (Bay Street Theatre); Peter Pan (North Shore Music Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Coachella Valley Repertory); Double Helix (Goodspeed Opera House Festival of New Musicals, Bay Street Theatre); Thirst, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Lyric Stage); Pride and Prejudice (Barnstormers Theatre); The Children’s Hour (The Gamm Theatre); Josh Groban’s Harmony Tour, Bridges Tour regional chorus.
Meghan Carey
Young Gloria
Meghan Carey
Meghan Carey (she/her) Regional: Pinocchio (Commonwealth Lyric Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prague Shakespeare Company). Film: Graduation Day (Five Hundred West Film). University: The Vagina Monologues, Something Rotten (Boston Conservatory). Education: BFA Musical Theatre (Boston Conservatory). Represented by DGRW. @meghancareyy
Chloé Kolbenheyer
Young Ruby / Patty
Chloé Kolbenheyer
Chloé Kolbenheyer (she/her) Off Broadway: Disco Fever: The Music of the Bee Gees (54 Below). Off Off Broadway: Who’d Love Lucy? (Tank NYC). Regional: Bug (Witchhunt Theatre Company). Film: Fireplace Ridge. TV: What Would You Do?. Represented by Stewart Talent NY and Blue Ridge Entertainment. Education: BFA in acting (Boston University). chloekolben.com
Nicole Mulready
Young Jillian
Nicole Mulready
Nicole Mulready (she/her) Regional: Frank & Bean The Musical! (The WBUR Festival Kidstage); Troilus and Cressida (Prague Shakespeare Company). University: I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire; Escape From Happiness; The Convent. Original Works: U Had 2 B There; Home for the Weekend.
Kyle Cameron
Dennis / Jack Larkin
Kyle Cameron
Kyle Cameron (he/him) Off Broadway: Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (The Public); By the Water (MTC); Chains (Mint Theater); Night Sings Its Songs (New Light); Pushkin (the american vicarious). Proud member of the 52nd Street Project.
Jack Greenberg
Tony / Mr. Halliwell / Mr. Smith
Jack Greenberg
Jack Greenberg (he/him) The Huntington: John Proctor is the Villain. Regional: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company CSC2); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Newsies (Reagle Music Theatre); The Soldier’s Tale (Brandeis University).
Patrice Jean-Baptiste
Penny / Biddy
Patrice Jean-Baptiste
Patrice Jean-Baptiste (she/her) The Huntington: The Grove. Regional: Her Portmanteau, Building the Wall (Central Square); Trouble in Mind, Broke-ology (Lyric Stage); King Hedley [Elliot Norton nomination for Best Ensemble], The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, Hamlet (Actors Shakespeare Project); Henry V (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Black Odyssey (Front Porch Arts Collective); Boy x Man (Centastage).
Mike Masters
Bill / Joe / Fogg / Dr. Rose
Mike Masters
Mike Masters Off Broadway: Sump’n Like Wings (Mint); An Evening at the Carlyle (Algonquin); Face the Music (Encores!). Regional: Catch Me If You Can (The REV); The Foreigner, South Pacific, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Big Bang, Beauty and the Beast (Flat Rock Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Alliance Theatre); Night and Her Stars (JTS); Twelfth Night (ATL Shakespeare). National: The 101 Dalmatians Musical (MSG); Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (4 seasons – San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto, Minneapolis/St. Paul companies); I Say Tomato, You Say Shut Up!.
Lewis D. Wheeler
Mr. Potts / Luther St. John
Lewis D. Wheeler
Lewis D. Wheeler (he/him) The Huntington: The Triumph of Love, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Butley. Regional: No Man’s Land (ART); Cost of Living, Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (New Rep); A Number (Lyric Stage); Every Brilliant Thing (Cape Rep). Over 70 productions at American Stage, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Nora Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, five seasons at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (WHAT), Underground Railway, Wheelock Family Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, founding member of Harbor Stage.
Zach Kautter
US Tony / Mr. Halliwell / Mr. Smith
Zach Kautter
Zach Kautter (he/him) Regional: Constellations (BCA Plaza Theatre). Education: BFA in Acting (Boston University). He is the founder of PK Productions Inc., a non-profit dedicated to emerging artists. zachkautter.com
Lila Grace English
US Young Ruby / Young Patty / Young Jillian
Lila Grace English
Lila Grace English (she/her) University: The Skriker, Sense & Sensibility, King Lear. Education: BFA in Acting (Boston University). lilagraceenglish.com
Bridgette Hayes
US Gloria / Veronica
Bridgette Hayes
Bridgette Hayes (she/her) is a Boston-based actor, educator, and designer. Off Broadway: The Contrast (Mirror Repertory Theater). Regional: Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Lyric Stage); Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets (Gloucester Stage Company); Everyday Life (Sleeping Weazel / Arts Emerson); Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage); Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (Greater Boston Stage Company); Dog Paddle and Julius Caesar (Bridge Repertory Theater); An Octoroon (Company One / Arts Emerson).
Annika Bolton
US Young Joan / Young Gloria
Annika Bolton
Annika Bolton (she/her) Regional: Llorona, Or The Weeping Women (Boston Center for the Arts); Soft Star (Boston Playwrights’ Theater); How to Kill a Goat (Moonbox Productions/Boston New Works Festival). University: Richard III, Fucking A, El Nogalar (Boston University). Film: Swipe Right for Danger (Verdi Films).
Yewande Odetoyinbo
US Penny / Biddy
Yewande Odetoyinbo
Yewande Odetoyinbo (any pronouns) The Huntington: Fat Ham. Regional: Waitress (Majestic Theatre); FELA! (Olney Theatre Center / Round House Theatre); The Colored Museum (American Stage Company); Sister Act, The Light, Breath Imagination [IRNE Award winner] (Lyric Stage); The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors (Lyric Stage / Front Porch Arts Collective); Fairview, Once On This Island, The View Upstairs (SpeakEasy Stage); Macbeth in Stride (ART); Passing Strange, Caroline or Change [Elliot Norton nomination], Parade (Moonbox Productions); Hair (New Rep); Show Boat (Fiddlehead Theatre); The Sound of Music, Show Boat (Reagle Music Theatre); Finish Line, The Gay Agenda (Boston Theatre Company); In the Heights, Seussical, Ragtime (Wheelock Family Theatre); Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It! (Merrimack Repertory Theater).
Jez Butterworth
Playwright
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth was born in London in 1969 and studied English at St. John’s College, Cambridge. His first play, Mojo, won seven major awards, including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. His other plays include The Night Heron, The Winterling, Parlour Song, Jerusalem, The River, and The Ferryman (nominated for nine Tony Awards and winning four, including Best Play 2019). His latest play, The Hills of California, was highly acclaimed on Broadway and in the West End.
Loretta Greco
Director
Loretta Greco
Loretta Greco is The Huntington’s Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director. Her extensive national directing credits include The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, Prayer for the French Republic, and Taylor Mac’s world premiere of Joy and Pandemic at The Huntington, the premieres of runboyrun and A Park in Our House at New York Theatre Workshop, The Story, Lackawanna Blues, and Two Sisters and a Piano at The Public Theater, Sweat, The Realistic Joneses, Speed-the-Plow, and Blackbird at American Conservatory Theater, and productions for California Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others.
Alexandra Dietrich
Assistant Director
Alexandra Dietrich
Alexandra Dietrich (she/her) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza; Regional: Vanessa (Boston Symphony Orchestra & Boston Lyric Opera); Jane & Steve Akin Emerging Artist 2025-2026, Macbeth, The Daughter of the Regiment, Mitridate, The Seasons, Concert in the Courtyard (Boston Lyric Opera); X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X [Associate Artistic Producer – Grammy nomination, Best Opera Recording] (Boston Modern Orchestra Project); Glory Denied (Opera Company of Middlebury); Awakenings (Odyssey Opera); La tragédie de Carmen (Boston Opera Collaborative); Little Women, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Jesus Christ Superstar (Marblehead Little Theatre); The Little Prince [Stage Director] (Longy School of Music at Bard College); Artist Faculty in Voice 2019-2025 (Osher School of Music at University of Southern Maine). DietrichDirectorMezzo.com @dietrichdirectormezzo
Kyle C. Frisina
Dramaturg
Kyle C. Frisina
Kyle C. Frisina (she/her) Off Broadway, as Director of Play Development at Second Stage Theater: How I Learned to Drive, Water by the Spoonful, Little Miss Sunshine, The Happiest Song Plays Last, The Substance of Fire, American Hero, The Tutors, Mala Hierba.
Andrew Boyce
Scenic Designer
Andrew Boyce
Andrew Boyce (he/him) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza, Prayer for the French Republic, A Doll’s House, Part 2. Broadway: Dana H. Off Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater, Primary Stages, among many others.
Se Hyun Oh
Scenic Designer
Se Hyun Oh
Se Hyun Oh (he/him) is a South Korean set designer based in NYC. Off Broadway: Once Upon A Korean Time (Ma-Yi Theatre/ La Mama Theatre); The Unbelieving (The Civilians/ 59E59 Theatres).
Jennifer von Mayrhauser
Costume Designer
Jennifer von Mayrhauser
Jennifer von Mayrhauser Broadway: Over 30 productions including Disgraced, Wit, Rabbit Hole, The Heidi Chronicles, Talley’s Folly. Off Broadway: Night of the Iguana (Signature Theater); Prodigal Son (Manhattan Theater Club), The Miss Firecracker Contest, Uncommon Women and Others, Third (Lincoln Center); also, 20 productions at Circle Repertory Company, with an Obie Award for “Sustained Excellence of Costume Design.”
J Jared Janas
Hair, Wig, and Makeup Designer
J Jared Janas
J Jared Janas (he/him) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza, The Art of Burning, Common Ground Revisited, The Bluest Eye, Indecent, Man in the Ring. Broadway: Dead Outlaw, John Proctor is the Villain, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buena Vista Social Club, Our Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Mary Jane, Prayer for the French Republic, Purlie Victorious, Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd…, Ohio State Murders, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, Porgy and Bess.
David Van Tieghem
Sound Design + Composer
David Van Tieghem
David Van Tieghem (he/him) Broadway: Burn This, How I Learned to Drive, Doubt, Heisenberg, The Gin Game, The Big Knife, Reckless, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, The Crucible, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind.
Russell H. Champa
Lighting Designer
Russell H. Champa
Russell H. Champa The Huntington: We All Fall Down, Romeo and Juliet, A Guide for the Homesick, Now or Later, Captors. Broadway: China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater); Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York: Playwrights Horizons, Theater for a New Audience, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Vineyard Theater, MCC and New York Stage and Film.
Ashleigh Reade
Voice and Dialect Coach
Ashleigh Reade
Ashleigh Reade (she/her) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza. Regional: Emma (Actor’s Shakespeare Project); The Anonymous Lover (Boston Lyric Opera); Driving in Circles, Jado Jehad (Boston Playwright’s Theater); A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theater); Always, Patsy Cline (Delaware Theater Company); Sweeney Todd (Moonbox Productions); The Light Princess (ART); The Wizard of Oz (Wheelock Family Theater).
Misha Shields
Choreographer
Misha Shields
Misha Shields (she/her) The Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic, The Lehman Trilogy, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Witch, Yerma, Ripcord, A Doll’s House, Milk Like Sugar, I Was Most Alive With You. Off Broadway: Baghdaddy (Chita Rivera Award nominee for Best Choreography, St. Luke’s Theatre); Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company); Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started The Iraq War (The Actor’s Temple); The Orion Experience (XL Nightclub); also, Signature Theatre, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, Julia Miles Theater, The Zipper Factory, The St. Bart’s Players.
Jesse Hinson
Fight Director and Intimacy Consultant
Jesse Hinson
Jesse Hinson (he/him) is a Boston-based violence designer, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator. The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Leopoldstadt, Fat Ham. Regional: Pru Payne, Cost of Living, Casa Valentina (SpeakEasy Stage); Rx Machina (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); The Minutes (Umbrella Arts); Anna Christie, The Little Foxes (Lyric Stage Company); Bud, Not Buddy (Wheelock Family Theater).
Daniel Rodriguez
Music Director
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez (he/him) The Huntington: The Band’s Visit, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music. Regional: Hello, Dolly!, Urinetown, Assassins, Preludes (Lyric Stage); Evita, An American In Paris, Oklahoma (Reagle Music Theater); A Christmas Carol (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Kinky Boots, Little Shop of Horrors (North Shore Music Theater); Guys and Dolls (Greater Boston Stage Company); Caroline or Change, Cabaret, The Wild Party (Moonbox Productions); Mr. Popper’s Penguins, In the Heights (Wheelock Family Theatre); The Lily’s Revenge, The Blue Flower (ART); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Front Porch Arts Collective); Jerry Springer: The Opera, Drood (SpeakEasy Stage).
Janet Foster, CSA
NY Casting Director
Janet Foster, CSA
Janet Foster, CSA has been casting for over 35 years. At The Huntington, she recently worked on The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Sojourners, Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, and The Band’s Visit. Eight years at American Conservatory Theater included working with directors Carey Perloff, Mark Lamos, Mark Rucker, Annie Kaufmann, Loretta Greco, and many more.
Kevin Schlagle
Production Stage Manager
Kevin Schlagle
Kevin Schlagle has worked on many productions in 16 seasons with The Huntington including The Light in the Piazza, Prayer for the French Republic, and Sunday in the Park with George. Other credits include American Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Boston Lyric Opera.
Ashley Pitchford
Stage Manager
Ashley Pitchford
Ashley Pitchford (she/her) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, Leopoldstadt, John Proctor is the Villain, The Heart Sellers, Fat Ham, Joy and Pandemic, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Teenage Dick, Witch, We All Fall Down, Man in the Ring.
Special Events:
Coolidge Corner Stage and Screen:
Postcards from the Edge
Monday, September 15th at 7:00pm
Join us for a post-screening discussion with guests from The Hills of California.
Postcards from the Edge follows Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale (Streep), who is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. After a stint at rehab, her film company insists that she move in with her mother (MacLaine), herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne, who has struggled for years to escape her mother’s shadow. Despite their issues, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realizes that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
From Playwright Jez Butterworth
“There is something at the heart of this play about the idea of really, really wanting to be special. And the folly of that. You can live through what we call ‘the 60s’ and completely miss out on being a hippie or a punk, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t live. You don’t have to be special to be worth remembering.”
From Artistic Director Loretta Greco
“I adore this stunning, truly sublime play from one of our greatest living writers, and I love the ferocity of Veronica Webb, who sees the road to transcendence for her four daughters through the power of performing a song. As the eldest of five sisters, this intense, mysterious, and hilarious homecoming resonates deeply for me, when the complicated past converses fluidly and passionately with the present. I’m thrilled to create a new production of this big-minded West End and Broadway hit for Boston!”
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