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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ben Butler burst into tears and vowed to fight for the rest of his life to clear his name after he was found guilty of killing Ellie Butler. Butler, 36 and his partner Jennie Gray sobbed heavily in ...

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 ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

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 ...

Today, Congress is filled with attorneys, consultants, political operatives and career politicians. There is value in those ...