Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Hayward Morse was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Alan Bates won.

NEW YORK — “The Odd Couple” may be set to close June 4, but Nathan Lane won’t be gone from Broadway for long. Next up is the title role in “Butley,” director Nicholas Martin’s staging of the 1971 ...

Nathan Lane is back on Broadway with a juicy star part in Simon Gray’s “Butley. ” That’s the good news. The not-so-good news is that this 35-year-old play – character portrait, really – is showing its ...

In many ways, Nathan Lane's star turn in the Broadway revival of Simon Gray's Butley represents a return to his theatrical roots. Before he burst to mainstream fame in Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing ...

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Butley, written by Gray in 1971, centres on a rapier-tongued lecturer trying to cope with the strains of divorce and academia. The character was famously portrayed by Alan Bates when the play ...

It's easy to see why Nathan Lane would be attracted to the title role of "Butley," Simon Gray's little-seen play that has not been revived on Broadway since its 1972 production starring the ...