Parabasis (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you are interested in reading yet another "Essay" by David Mamet that is, in fact, an advertisement for David Mamet, here is his latest in the Times. For the record, I'd pin the start of this with True and...
Ken Hawkins (Free subscription) | yesterday
... player? With biting comedy and fast-and-furious dialogue, Speed-the-Plow is Hollywood as only David Mamet can deliver.
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Directed by : David Mamet Written by : David Mamet Starring : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Rodrigo Santoro, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay Please throw out everything you know about this movie outside. The film is filled with a series of twists that even leaves the main protagonists in a knot that almost parallels his teachings of...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Benjamin noted that he's talked with Kevin Crowley, recently returned pro actor, about a mini-David Mamet Festival.Crowley is trying to raise the cash to debut the new Actors of Cincinnati Theater at the MAC with Mamet's "A Life in the Theater"; Benjamin has a couple of other Mamets, including "Oleanna," ready to go, having tried the idea out in Northside, where an 18-month...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Who would've thought that Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and filmmaker David Mamet would ever make a martial arts film? The Bard of the "F" word usually restricts his fights to the verbal arena, watching as predators try to out talk one another in a game of metronomic one-upmanship. So, what's he doing making a martial arts film with a plot that sounds like American Ninja 4 ?
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
A drama written by Pulitzer and Tony award-winning American playwright David Mamet will be staged at Reps Theatre Upstairs during September.
82 Sluggo Win (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... still featured the signature rat-a-tat dialogue made so famous in years past. “ ABC/ESPN,” wrote David Mamet in a guest review of Citay in The Economist , “may be slumming it right now, but the rest of us could only wish we were so gloriously dilapidated. This may be bad, but it’s still viscera. It’s blood and guts. It’s bone marrow. I wanted to smash my own face in shame knowing...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... the latest information on Haley Joel Osment's career —he's to star in the upcoming production of David Mamet's American Buffalo on Broadway. It will be interesting to see how he makes the transition, both from child actor to adult actor, and from film to stage. Much of the rest of the Goings On this week was devoted to material relating to the Republican Convention. There is a reprint...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... who've never heard of Peter Shaffer, whose play this is. They will learn.Look, too, for more David Mamet: His "Speed-the-Plow" pulls into the Barrymore Oct. 3, with Jeremy Piven, Raul Esparza and Elisabeth ("Mad Men") Moss in the part formerly played by Madonna, while "American Buffalo," the story of a bungled heist, roams into the Booth Oct. 31, with John Leguizamo and Cedric the...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... now controlled by the Manhattan Theatre Club, officially changes to go on sale for the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” on Broadway, starring John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer and Haley Joel OsmentThe has free admission from 7 to 10 p.m. today and the is free from 6 to 8 p.m.Several other museums are open until 8 p.m. tonight: the , the , the , the and the .Thursday’s...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Where have all the new plays gone?On Broadway this fall, it will be lonely pair - "To Be or Not to Be" and "Dividing the Estate" - that will qualify as new works in a season studded with starry revivals such as "Equus" and "All My Sons."Quite a change from last year, where the fall had plays by Tracy Letts, Tom Stoppard, Conor McPherson, Aaron Sorkin and even Mark Twain (well, adapted by David...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... by Tracy Letts, Tom Stoppard, Conor McPherson, Aaron Sorkin and even Mark Twain (well, adapted by David Ives) on tap. And David Mamet showed up with a new one, too - in January."Broadway has been fairly unfriendly to the new play for a while," said Daniel Sullivan, acting artistic director last season for Manhattan Theatre Club, which will produce one of those two new works....
Digital Poetics (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... "Dear Jann--I am feeling a little desperate about getting out of this hotel." Near the end of David Mamet's 1992 play Oleanna , when John realizes fully and for the first time that Carol's "group" has charged him with "exploitativeness" and that he will be denied tenure, Carol says this to him: "YOU FOOL. Who do you think I am? To come here and be taken in by a smile ? You little...
