Jack’s unexpected return is throwing his family into a frenzy, and his sister Lorna needs answers. Is he coming home or running away? Where is his wife everyone hates? How did he get all that money? Dead Accounts tackles the issues of corporate greed, small town values, and whether or not your family will always welcome you back with no questions asked.
What Is the Story of Dead Accounts?
Dead Accounts tells the story of a crafty New Yorker named Jack, who arrives at his Midwestern home in the middle of the night, greeted by his sister Lorna with a raised eyebrow and a lot of questions. Why is he eating exorbitant amounts of ice cream and pizza? Where is his wife, a woman the whole family despises? And where did he get all of this money? Jack’s sister, mother and childhood best friend try to dig up answers just as quickly as Jack tries to bury them in Theresa Rebeck’s biting new comedy.
"Any analysis of the chemical makeup of Norbert Leo Butz would surely reveal traces of gunpowder. How else to account for the fireworks that Mr. Butz is conjuring out of thin air?"
The New York Times
Ben Brantley
"...the anguish and heart of [Butz's] character are revealed beautifully. Butz makes Jack both lovesick in one moment and thunderously revengeful in the next."
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
"Directed with a nimble hand by Jack O’Brien, the Broadway production assembles a terrific five-person cast... Butz is a comic force of nature."
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney