| 单词 | Mamet |
| 例句 | Like Mamet characters, they populated an America that had never existed, a kid’s idea of sharpies and hucksters and underworld life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mamet doesn't really write this sort of play anymore. 'Lakeboat': Salty language and guy insecurities worth 3 1/2 stars 2011-01-21T18:28:01Z David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the 1983 play about real estate agents, is deliberately written to begin in mid-conversation, enhancing the audience's sense of eavesdropping. Broadway is too clap happy 2012-11-05T16:38:47Z Eventually, Mamet learned that her disorder hadn't been about weight or food, "that's just the way the monster manifests itself." Zosia Mamet of 'Girls' pens column on her eating disorder 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “I’m just really looking forward to this play and working with Mamet,” Mr. Fishburne said in a phone interview. Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ Is Headed Back to Broadway 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “He works with these seemingly simple words that are loaded with a lot of tension, a lot of subtext, a lot of nuance,” Fishburne said of Mamet’s script. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Richards rejected questions, prompted by the criticism and failure of some of Mr. Mamet’s recent works, about whether Mr. Mamet remains as strong a writer as he once was. Delayed Opening for Mamet's 'China Doll' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Unlike Mamet’s salesmen, it’s not afraid to show the sweat. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z Mr. Mamet’s last two original plays — “The Penitent,” which ran Off Broadway in 2017, and “China Doll,” which ran on Broadway in 2015 — were not critically well received. John Malkovich to Play Harvey Weinstein-Like Character in West End 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Mamet won’t simply let you write off these losers as seedy riffraff. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z Until recently, Mamet lived in L.A., but then she realized that “Girls,” which is filmed in New York, might be on for a while, so she decided last year to relocate. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Mr. Lage, a founding member of the Atlantic and a longtime interpreter of Mr. Mamet, offers a carefully measured master class in this regard. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Talbott has even come up with his own cuddly equivalent to Mr. Mamet’s signature foul-mouthed dialogue, in a version that is consciously cuter and heavier on the implicit quotation marks. | 'The Submission': ?The Submission,? at Lucille Lortel Theater - Review 2011-09-28T02:01:20Z The show’s original opening night was delayed by about two weeks, and Mr. Mamet was said to be rewriting copiously. Review: In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacino as an Urban Warrior in Winter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Already Mr. Hart’s calendar for next year is crammed full of movie roles, including a new film version of David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and a planned sequel to “Think Like a Man.” Television: Kevin Hart Learns to Tell the Truth 2012-08-30T12:00:00Z Only David Mamet or the late Harold Pinter might be bigger stretches to adapt this book. Aaron Sorkin could ruin “To Kill a Mockingbird”: The last thing Atticus — or Scout — needs is his pithy, caffeinated touch 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z And so I did,” Mamet, who has been a force in U.S. theater and film for over 40 years, told the Chicago Tribune. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Enough to be cast as the co-star in the coming revival of that David Mamet play, its producers said on Thursday. T. R. Knight Finds New 'Life in the Theater' 2010-06-10T17:00:00Z Some of the characters awaiting their cues: David Mamet’s bumbling thieves. Mamet, ‘Mousetrap’ among new shows in Seattle 2013-01-10T22:10:12Z If only Mamet had taken the city editor’s advice: “We require bold, clear words and gruesome pictures.” Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Just seven years later, and yet an epoch, David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” demonstrated that comedy was at best a sugarcoating on tragedy. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z David Mamet’s latest character describes an airplane pilot who gets lost because his map is incomplete. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Did the lead producers’ devotion to Mr. Mamet — and the hope of a lucrative “Glengarry” revival — mean staging a new work that wasn’t right, or ready, for Broadway? David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z Mamet travelled to India to explore “outsourcing” paid pregnancies. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z If Mamet can antagonize both sides, he may be doing something right. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Mamet will direct the play, a two-woman drama set in a female penitentiary. Winger lands role in Mamet play 2012-06-06T09:08:55Z "It was very irritating that he didn't help us at all!" said the actress, who is married to Mamet. Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z “I think about this a lot now. I have a bunch of daughters, a young son,” Mamet said in the interview. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Spector’s unforgivable crime, in Mamet’s eyes, is that he was famous — notorious — in Los Angeles, whose legal system had been humiliated by the botched prosecutions of Michael Jackson, O.J. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z “Once I did that, I think it freed something, in that it allowed me to write how I thought my uncles spoke — without it seeming like a rip-off of Pinter or Mamet,” he said. You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Mamet created a cast of salesmen who keep themselves alive through their relentless, aggressive talk. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z Mamet reacted by swatting her hand away, and a relationship was born. Zosia Mamet’s Week: Log Cabin Living 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z It is probably Mamet’s best play, a case when his minimalist style was fleshed out with just enough character detail and plot surprise to make it feel like a full evening of theater. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z Right from the get-go, the dialogue is recognizably Mamet, with lines like, "I know a guy who ate a chair, just 'cause nobody stopped him." 'Lakeboat': Salty language and guy insecurities worth 3 1/2 stars 2011-01-21T18:28:01Z Working on Mamet’s point-of-view and Mamet’s script has really been fueling, and burying, me. Felicity Huffman on American Crime: 'Now Is the Golden Age of Television' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Starring opposite Ms. Mamet as her campus-crush-turned-antagonist will be Matt Lauria, who played a high school football star in the later seasons of "Friday Night Lights." ArtsBeat: Zosia Mamet's Winter Plans: On 'Girls' and Off Broadway 2012-12-11T18:09:30Z "Lena really doesn't ever write a sex scene or nudity that doesn't have a point in the story - we're never going to have a sex scene that's arbitrary," says Mamet. Girls wants 'to normalise sex on TV' 2014-01-20T07:24:21Z Traditionally, Mr. Mamet’s plays are conducted at high velocity, with his characters spraying words like machine-gun bullets. Review: In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacino as an Urban Warrior in Winter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “My Soul to Take” is a long way from Sondheim, Mamet and Pinter, but perhaps Mr. Esparza was able to draw on an earlier Broadway role: Riff Raff in the “The Rocky Horror Show.” | 'My Soul to Take': Death Reclaims His Fractured Psyche 2010-10-08T21:27:00Z In New York, Ms. Mamet added, “there are lights and music everywhere. It feels like the holiday is so embraced.” Sting, Annie Lenox and Other MTV Stars Sing for the Rainforest 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z He then starred on Broadway in the David Mamet drama “Race” as a palate cleanser after “Boston Legal,” and counterbalanced Steven Spielberg’s historical drama “Lincoln” with a stint on the NBC comedy “The Office.” James Spader Prepares for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In response to the letters he received complaining about the “language” in his plays, Mr Mamet sent a form letter in the 1980s that read: “Too bad, you big crybaby.” Bright lights 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “But I also wanted to respect Mamet’s text, so I preserved the masculine pronouns as much as I could,” he added. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z The story misses the clinical bravado of David Mamet’s heists, the psychosexual menace of “The Grifters,” or — despite opening with a dictionary definition — the crooked community described in the David Maurer classic “The Big Con.” ‘Sharper’ Review: The Big Con 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z And I learned this, I think, essentially from Mamet, that your job is to respond to what the other actor says. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Mamet thanked her politely and quickly returned to her order. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z “Received chronology,” Mamet notes at the opening, “has been jostled into a better understanding of its dramatic responsibilities.” Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The plot suggests Wag the Dog — David Mamet’s 1997 political satire about a Hollywood producer who invents a foreign war to divert attention from a presidential scandal — but in reverse. Ben Affleck's Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives? 2012-10-11T12:00:13Z Ms. Smith, who said she and Mr. Vidal shared a love of gossip, read a message from David Mamet. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Mamet had never heard of Dunham, but her agent also sent her Dunham’s breakout film, “Tiny Furniture,” and after watching it, Mamet decided, “I have to work with this person.” Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Mamet's play, which follows three small-time criminals whose play for one major heist goes awry, premiered on Broadway in 1977. Damian Lewis returns to West End 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z It was James Joyce, it was Pinter, it was Mamet. "There It Is. You're Caught." The Jinx Gets Its Man 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Two more shows, a revival of David Mamet’s play “American Buffalo” and a new show about Michael Jackson, “MJ the Musical,” aim to follow nearly a month later on April 14 and 15. Fauci Says It Could Be a Year Before Theater Without Masks Feels Normal 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The former child star spoke to the Sunday Times ahead of her two-month turn in the David Mamet play Speed-the-Plow in the West End. Lindsay Lohan: I had to roll Whitney Houston's body bag 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z In both works, the cadences have that distinctive Mamet cut, but Pacino's whining New York delivery has a plaintive tone even when his words are pummeling. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z But, when Mamet moves from the law to race, he trades rigorous specifics for windy generalities. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z Moss was exceptionally good in her Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," playing a secretary who outwits a couple of male Hollywood executives. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z But I would defy anyone to try to learn even a few pages of a script so vexingly stylized it seems as though it could only be a Mamet parody. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Lisa Tkach, a sophomore, said that in her philosophy class students talked about how Mr. Mamet’s characters abandoned their ideal, moral selves to get ahead in business. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z "He's in the process of leaving his office, and is giving last minute instructions to his young assistant," Mamet said. Al Pacino to return to Broadway in Mamet's 'China Doll' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But that would be to indulge in the same kind of baseless speculation Mamet did about teachers on Fox. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z China Doll, set to open next October at New York City’s Shubert Theater, is “about a wealthy man, his young fiancé and an airplane,” says Mamet, in a statement. Al Pacino and David Mamet Reunite for 'China Doll' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z This is another of Mamet's manipulative female characters whose psychology is a function of plot. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But Mamet isn’t copping a plea for the eccentric artist. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z A few days later, Mamet’s agent called to tell her that she still had the job. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Ms. Mamet is excellent in conjuring the self-startling perceptiveness of a young pothead mother with serious esteem problems. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z My problem with "Race" hasn't changed since I reviewed the starry 2009 Broadway production that Mamet directed himself. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z As David Mamet put it: "Narrative always wins out over statistics." Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith deaths: is acting today just too tough? 2013-07-23T17:45:00Z Mr. Mamet did not reply to interview requests made to his assistant or agent. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z "So often in film and television the characters are stuck in boxes," Mamet says. 1 of the 'Girls,' Zosia Mamet, shines in Season 2 2013-01-10T14:36:09Z He depicts this devastating moment of volatility with a patter reminiscent of David Mamet, specifically: profane and masculine, with rhythmic repetition of certain key phrases. 5 films about the financial crisis you can bank on 2012-11-29T23:48:09Z Mr. Mamet, after all, is widely regarded as the macho man of American theater, a two-fisted dispenser of high-testosterone dialogue and ugly truths. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z And while the writers have to be credited, the revelation for me was the superb acting ability of Zosia Mamet. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z This perfectly inflected performance is expertly directed by actor Mantegna, who, through longtime collaboration with David Mamet, knows a thing or two about four-letter eloquence. Lenny Bruce's fire and fury light up Theatre 68 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Mamet's other current Broadway show, the stellar revival of Glengarry Glen Ross led by Al Pacino, is faring far better. David Mamet's The Anarchist bombs on Broadway 2012-12-05T13:53:33Z Such are the sounds of “Prairie du Chien,” the first of two short, early works by David Mamet that opened on Tuesday night at the Atlantic Theater’s Stage 2 under the title “Ghost Stories.” Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Deeply influenced by Samuel Beckett, his enigmatic language and visions in turn impacted plays by David Mamet, Sarah Kane and many others. A passion for Pinter inspires 'Fortnightly' series at ACT 2011-06-22T19:33:05Z “About Last Night…,” from 1986, is bathed in the trademark gauzy schmaltz of director Edward Zwick, but at least it retains a smidgen of Mamet’s headlong, profane wit. ‘About Last Night’: A one-night stand best forgotten 2014-02-12T23:56:10Z So is it fair to call David Mamet’s intimate play a hit and “Legally Blonde” a flop? Theater Talkback: How Do You Measure a Hit? 2010-08-26T19:02:00Z But they are more elegantly spoken than most Mamet men, especially the older Robert. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z In an unusual move, Mr. Richards broke the bad news about “The Anarchist” just days before this Saturday’s official opening of “Glengarry,” overshadowing that other Mamet show. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z On the bright side, you may have a bright future as a screenwriter – you’re more colorful than Mamet, and your letter has already been turned into the greatest performance of Michael Shannon’s career. From Reese to A.J. Clemente, stupidity keeps going viral 2013-04-23T19:58:00Z That year, Durning starred in two comedy films written by David Mamet – Lakeboat, and State and Main – and appeared on stage in New Jersey in Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. Charles Durning obituary 2012-12-25T15:24:51Z ‘Ghost Stories: “The Shawl” and “Prairie Du Chien”’ These two early plays by David Mamet are vocal exercises of a sort, introductions in how to speak the language of their creator. Theater Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But when Mike and Parlow fall into their self-mocking dialogues, the stage suddenly thrusts through the pages, and they sound as gratingly artificial as characters in a Mamet parody: Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z For “American Buffalo,” which opened on Broadway in 1977, Mamet devised a theatrical equivalent to the harshly evocative visuals of those films. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Standing next to her was Zosia Mamet, who was enduring the cold snap a little better. Sting, Annie Lenox and Other MTV Stars Sing for the Rainforest 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Directed by Mr. Mamet, with a comic-strip flatness that does the script no favors, this hot-ticket production at the Garrick Theater is as feeble and facile as most of the reviews would have it. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Zosia Mamet is fantastic in everything she's in, and I'm not just saying that because I'm still obsessed with "Girls" and make a point to rewatch the series once a year. "The Flight Attendant" recap: Dapper death 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Mamet is back - but maybe not the way he wanted. Review: Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' crackles 2012-12-10T02:37:10Z Photograph: Simon Annand David Mamet has always had a fascination with the con, the double cross, the dupe and the deception. This week's new theatre 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Shortly after the album was released, Faust got a staging at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, and then at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, with David Mamet reshaping the libretto. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Pepe, a longtime Mamet colleague, does so mostly by moving the characters like mice in a maze on Scott Pask’s ingenious junk shop set. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “Growing up in New York I wanted to be onstage before anything else,” said Ms. Washington, who made her Broadway debut almost 10 years ago in David Mamet’s “Race.” Kerry Washington Is Going From the Beltway to Broadway 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z But such pure Mamet gold is in too short supply in a drama that rarely finds the distinctive timbre of its characters' voices. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Mamet subtly shifts gears as Leigh, who seems controlled and enigmatic, may be using the situation to her own advantage. Review: 'Really Really' is clever look at GenMe 2013-02-20T22:58:08Z All the techniques practiced by the players of “Speed-the-Plow,” Mr. Mamet’s earlier and superior Hollywood satire, have been spliced into a single disheveled package. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In the room, Mr. Rubin had the actors sit around a table reading from their scripts to get Mr. Mamet’s rhythms. For Stephen Adly Guirgis, the Long Road Back to a First Love: Acting 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In between, Ms. Cattrall appeared at the most esteemed small theater in London, the Donmar Warehouse, in a revival of David Mamet’s haunting drama “The Cryptogram.” She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z Few living American playwrights are produced as often on Broadway today as Mr. Mamet, and that is largely because of Mr. Richards, who first worked as a press representative on Mamet shows during the 1980s. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z While Bill, the gruff, chauvinist pig, is a meaty role typically interpreted as a macho cad out of an early Mamet play, Mr. Sienkiewicz underplays his swagger and applies not a hint of menace. Critic?s Notebook: Reconsidering ?Lobby Hero? by Kenneth Lonergan 2011-11-06T22:45:44Z Meanwhile, to quote David Mamet, life certainly isn't about "trying to have a drink with Daisy". Which book is greater than The Great Gatsby? 2013-05-08T15:29:01Z What do you think has happened to David Mamet? ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z Mr. Mamet: “No, I’m a pretty good director.” Mamet's New ABC: Always Be on Colbert 2010-06-18T13:06:00Z Even as the characters openly discuss the art of misdirection and sleight of hand, we ourselves are being led down the garden path by Mamet. Your next box set: The Unit 2012-07-05T14:30:01Z In an interview Mr. Richards insisted that he could not delay the closing notice simply to spare Mr. Mamet’s feelings. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z Still: David Mamet — who has directed 10 movies himself — taking on Harvey Weinstein? Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Mamet has a field day caricaturing this worldview, but satire isn't exactly his shtick. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Mamet plays Diana’s dilemma with the right mix of pathos and discomfort, while the writer and director Sophie Brooks crafts emotional stakes high enough to prevent the story from veering into sitcom territory. ‘Skate Kitchen,’ ‘Night Moves’ and More Streaming Gems 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “It was an exceptional experience,” Ms. Mamet said. ArtsBeat: The It-Series 'Girls' Gets a Party to Match 2012-04-05T19:17:54Z The Mamet School of Salesmanship “HELLO, I am Jason from the Studio Theater, and today is your lucky day.” Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z Mamet gave few details of the play, and his representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z On Wednesday Ms. Winger, in response to questions about Mr. Mamet, replied by e-mail, “It’s a bigger story than you could ever fit in your daily column.” David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z He’s also the artistic director of the Atlantic Theater Company, the Off Broadway theater Mr. Mamet founded in 1985. Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ Is Headed Back to Broadway 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z "Woke signaling, blind compliance with public-health authoritarianism, deference to theater critics and tyrannical city officials — Mr. Mamet doesn't play along," the WSJ article concludes. David Mamet says teachers are "inclined to pedophilia," perpetuating right-wing grooming rhetoric 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z He discovers, for example, that David Mamet’s ear for rhythmic, cruel dialogue evolved out of a childhood spent defending himself against the vicious verbal lacerations of his parents. Bright lights 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The actresses appeared together in Mamet's "Boston Marriage" at the American Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts in 1999. Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Jeffrey Richards, a Broadway producer with whom Mamet has collaborated often, also did not immediately respond. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Mamet has claimed that the play does not take sides, audiences have not agreed. Why Plays About Sexual Assault Are Too Murky for Our Own Good 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z For Mamet the theatre is a courtroom – a battleground in which judgment rather than justice is at stake. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z And she was originally slated to star with Patti LuPone in Mr. Mamet’s new play, “The Anarchist”; once word came about the “Other Place” transfer, however, she backed out and was replaced by Debra Winger. Laurie Metcalf, on Broadway in ‘The Other Place’ 2012-12-27T16:27:16Z The rhythm of Mamet's language is so stupefying that the twists and turns of the plot barely make any impression at all. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Dysfunctional clans fairly litter the indie-verse these days, but there's a strange charm in this young Mamet pretending it's original. 'Two-Bit Waltz' stumbles, but with charm 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Theatre, are so colorful, argumentative and profane that they suggest the existence, and possibly the overuse, of some sort of David Mamet character generator app. Life pulses like hip-hop at 'Gus's Fashions & Shoes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Mamet’s hyper-stylized dialogue isn’t easy to act; if the rhythm is off, it can feel unbearably phony, “written” rather than spoken. Alan Arkin Could Do It All. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ He Did. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s unlikely that Mr. Mamet will pull any punches when it comes to criticizing the movie industry — he certainly didn’t in his Oscar-nominated screenplay for “Wag the Dog” in 1997. Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Euston considered Mamet to be one of those actresses that she and her casting friends like to call a transformer: someone who can “naturally transform into this different character.” Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Washington Post Book World editor Ron Charles brings out his alter ego, the Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer, for this hysterically noirish take on David Mamet’s “Chicago.” Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, “Bitter Wheat” addresses “bad behavior” in various industries, not just entertainment, Malkovich told Reuters. Malkovich returns to London stage as disgraced producer in Mamet play 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Instead, the repertory season will include weightier fare: David Mamet’s “Race,” Sam Shepard’s “Ages of the Moon” and several new plays. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z This comes less than six months after another Mamet play, The Anarchist, failed catastrophically on Broadway, its closure announced the day after opening. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z “I misspoke,” Mamet said, urging people to skip that page of the book. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But Richard Bean's version of House of Games, a flawless 1987 film written and directed by David Mamet, is a pointless exercise. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z If “Life” seemed tame after the feral “Buffalo,” it was reassuring to know that beneath the bad-boy bluster, Mr. Mamet was a softie when it came to that business we call show. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z That's what Zosia Mamet invited a collection of famous friends — and notable strangers — to talk about for the new anthology "My First Popsicle." Zosia Mamet on pushing for a trigger warning for stories about food and feelings 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z This year a Gate festival of plays by Beckett, Harold Pinter and David Mamet, entitled “BPM: The Relish of Language,” is also running through the first half of October. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z He's what a David Mamet character would sound like if he walked around stubbing his toe. Die Hard 2 recap: 'Insane bloodlust, gratuitous profanity, zero logic' 2013-06-21T16:15:40Z In response, the Tony Award-winning actor Colman Domingo wrote on Twitter, apparently referring to another Mamet play, “Speed-the-Plow,” “American Theater. Do your duty. Take out the trash. Buffalo’s, Plows and all.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Mamet’s last few plays, including “The Anarchist,” “China Doll” and “The Penitent,” have not been well-received. Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z I was lucky enough to be associated with David Mamet. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z But with Mr. Mamet every word matters, and it’s no accident that he describes the smell with the word “vaguely,” a tip-off to one of the play’s primary beliefs about sales. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z The notable exception to this came in the scores of life-upon-the-wicked-stage anecdotes that were a constant part of the rehearsal process, especially whenever Mr. Mamet dropped in. Out of the O.R., Back Onto the Stage 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z How I'd love to see a new Mamet play that jolted, rattled and excited me the way his early work did. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z Early in her career, she and a friend from drama school came up with something they called the Mamet Scam. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Mamet also draws deeply on the Minotaur legend, ending his movie with the lines, “Why does the Minotaur live in a cave?” Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z He then directed a number of plays – Mamet, Ionesco, Wilde – in regional theatres. Much ado about Delhi: RSC's Indian Shakespeare 2012-08-01T07:01:00Z And for me the effect is more unsettling and entertaining than that of another, blunter work, now on Broadway, by a better-known playwright on the same subject: David Mamet’s “Race.” Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z "Here's the thing," explains Mamet by phone from Los Angeles. Pacino as a faded music whiz charged with murder 2013-03-21T14:43:15Z It was not a traditional way of publicizing the Broadway revival of one of your best plays, but perhaps Mamet was thinking not of teachers per se but of a character called Teach. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In his later work, though, Mamet seems to begin not with a location or protagonist but with a theme. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z He last appeared on Broadway in another Mamet play, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama "Glengarry Glen Ross," which ended its limited run in 2013. Al Pacino to return to Broadway in Mamet's 'China Doll' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The foul-mouthed but endlessly watchable men who populate David Mamet's "Lakeboat" predate anything seen on Discovery's "Deadliest Catch," but they are no question cut from the same cloth. 'Lakeboat': Salty language and guy insecurities worth 3 1/2 stars 2011-01-21T18:28:01Z Additionally, Mamet's conservative beliefs were further outlined in an April opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal that praises him as being non-conformist when it comes to science and the left. David Mamet says teachers are "inclined to pedophilia," perpetuating right-wing grooming rhetoric 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Theatre Works records the David Mamet drama, about three shady characters plotting to steal a rare coin, for its radio program. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 15-22: 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Mamet, who was also hitting the recording studio for her first album with Cabin, a “bluegrass-y sort of band,” claimed she has worked with Ms. Randall on frocks for several seasons now. On the Runway Blog: Stargazing: Earning a Spot in the Front Row 2013-09-06T21:44:08Z But unlike Mamet, who fueled fires by making both characters in “Oleanna” behave in unsavory ways, Ziegler sets out to portray Amber and Tom as likable. Sex, consent, gender, race: A potent cocktail in 'Actually' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “David Mamet is among our best writers, period,” he said. Delayed Opening for Mamet's 'China Doll' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z In 1986, David Mamet published his best book, a slim and semi-hardboiled treatise on theater and life titled “Writing in Restaurants.” August Wilson, a Theater Titan Who Spun Gold in Diners 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Winger was also frustrated with Mr. Mamet, these two people said, because she believed he had not given her enough guidance about her character’s intentions. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z Essentially, according to Mamet, the outcome of the trial hinged on a bad hair day. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Makes you wonder: could the young, unsung Clifford Odets or David Mamet catch a break on today’s Broadway? Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z Producers said Friday that Mamet will team up with director Rupert Goold on "The Anarchist." David Mamet to debut a new play in London 2011-04-01T17:09:14Z In fact," he added, "as far as I'm concerned, he's a better version of Mamet. After 'A Steady Rain,' instant success for Keith Huff 2011-05-27T18:57:00Z But it is surely is Mamet’s strongest drama in ages, and a seductive, devious essay on the tortured celebrity soul. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Photograph: Bill Knight From Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park to David Mamet's Race – soon to hit the UK – American theatre is currently much concerned with racial tensions. Neighbors – review 2013-05-23T17:21:07Z She was able to do a very difficult David Mamet play called “Oleanna” when she was only 21. A Word With: Jane Birkin: Jane Birkin Brings Serge Gainsbourg Songs to New York 2011-12-09T20:50:28Z Within a block, you can see Mamet's past and present. Review: Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' crackles 2012-12-10T02:37:10Z Should playwrights direct their own work, as Mr. Mamet did with “The Anarchist” and his last new drama on Broadway, “Race”? David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z While Mamet’s milieu was a seedy real estate operation, King’s is the contrived glamour of beauty products. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z This week Cardiff offers David Mamet's early play of bedroom politics, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, at the Sherman and Driving Miss Daisy at the New theatre. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z But Mamet, for all the concerns he expresses in his book of being blacklisted, is unlikely to be canceled from the canon. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Harrower’s intentionally choppy, overlapping dialogue recalls the styles of Harold Pinter and David Mamet in its incomplete sentences, trailing thoughts, pauses and non-sequiturs. In 'Blackbird,' the wreckage of childhood abuse, laid out on the table 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Mamet, ever fascinated by the use and misuse of language, is particularly attuned here to the way political speech evades and covers and misleads. Review: 'November' at New City Theater is Mamet Lite 2011-01-27T21:08:04Z No doubt Mamet would be pleased to know that I dislike Race. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z It was announced Thursday that Knight, who played Dr. George O'Malley on ABC's medical drama, will star opposite Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre." T.R. Knight returning to Broadway in Mamet play 2010-06-11T01:33:00Z Mamet, 64, is a prolific playwright and screenwriter best known for such plays as American Buffalo, Oleanna and Glengarry Glen Ross. Winger lands role in Mamet play 2012-06-06T09:08:55Z Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his play “Glengarry Glen Ross” about male power set in the cut-throat world of real estate. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Washington previously appeared on Broadway in 2009 in the David Mamet play “Race.” TV star Kerry Washington returns to Broadway in 'American Son' 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z David Mamet’s “Oleanna,” which provoked heated discourse about gender politics and student/professor power imbalances in the 1990s, is an obvious precedent. Sex, consent, gender, race: A potent cocktail in 'Actually' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z After Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo, it completed the searing presentation of American values that made Mamet seem the heir to Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z She eventually won praise on the New York stage, especially in plays by David Mamet. Huffman and Savant click on 'Desperate Housewives' 2011-05-05T10:49:08Z This is the third Mamet play to debut in London; his “Glengarry Glen Ross” opened in 1983 at the National Theater, and “The Cryptogram” in 1994 in the West End. ArtsBeat: New David Mamet Play Set to Premiere in London This Fall 2011-04-01T14:56:31Z The Daily Mail reported on Friday that the producers are seeking two star actresses in their 50s for the lead roles, whose casting would be subject to Mr. Mamet’s approved. ArtsBeat: New David Mamet Play Set to Premiere in London This Fall 2011-04-01T14:56:31Z Fletcher, a gruffly masculine presence, resembled a David Mamet salesman trapped in an Edward Hopper painting. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The former Homeland star will play Teach, one of a trio of crooks, in David Mamet's classic American Buffalo. Damian Lewis returns to West End 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The whole thing could be used as ammunition for those who feel that Mamet, the writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, has taken a bizarre, ideological wrong turn in his career. Your next box set: The Unit 2012-07-05T14:30:01Z Mamet’s early plays, Eustis said, are “tremendously morally ambiguous and complex.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Gregory Mosher, who has directed nearly two dozen Mamet plays — including the 1984 premiere of “Glengarry Glen Ross” — said that Mamet’s influence extended beyond his own plays and films to other spheres. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z On Sunday’s edition of the Fox News show “Life, Liberty & Levin,” David Mamet, the playwright turned Trumpite culture warrior, made an incendiary comment. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Seeing this empathetic connection between geniuses in different fields made me fantasise about, say, a set of Lucian Freud paintings illuminating a Harold Pinter play, or a David Mamet play featuring sets by Jasper Johns. Stage direction: why don't more visual artists do theatre? 2012-07-17T15:01:13Z Stephen King and David Mamet separately remembered how, when they were young, the fantastic vision Mr. Freberg concocted in a radio commercial helped unleash their imaginations. Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Producers said Wednesday that the show, which marks the 30th anniversary of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the backbiting world of salesmen, has recouped its $3.3 million investment. Al Pacino wins as 'Glengarry Glen Ross' recoups 2012-12-19T18:31:05Z Like “Buffalo” — and like other Mamet plays to come — “Life” portrays a professional relationship, and a shifting balance of power, between an aging, less-than-successful veteran and an eager, often clumsy tyro. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z But in the meantime, perhaps the large nonprofits might consider one less superfluous Mamet retread for something by Ivo van Hove. A Times critic looks forward to a bright future backlit by a decade of brilliant theater 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z But Mamet will be back on Broadway next season. Mamet's 'Race' recoups its B'way production costs 2010-04-21T22:16:00Z Ms. Baker in particular makes almost symphonic use of pauses and silences, without the menace they carry in the plays of Harold Pinter or David Mamet. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z Past or present, Mamet’s men must always contend with the rapidly changing currents of the day. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z "For me over the years the relationship and the collaboration with David Mamet has been one of the richest and most rewarding," Pacino said in a statement. Al Pacino to return to Broadway in Mamet's 'China Doll' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The actor has had a long working relationship with Mamet. Al Pacino will star in new David Mamet play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Mamet won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1984 play, "Glengarry Glen Ross." David Mamet to debut a new play in London 2011-04-01T17:09:14Z "Then you say, maybe he's not guilty," Mamet said. Al Pacino inhabits Phil Spector in Mamet's HBO film 2013-01-05T01:34:28Z Now comes an equally provocative Mamet piece entitled, simply, Race. Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-18T05:00:15Z The crime-caper setup has some of the savor of early David Mamet and much of the macho posturing. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Mamet’s guiding principle is that everyone has a right to be a parent. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe has described himself as the only Republican in American literature; Mamet shows increasing signs of doubling the number. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z Mamet, 74, came to prominence in the 1970s with a series of plays including “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and “American Buffalo.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The playwright David Mamet hailed it in The Wall Street Journal as “the best book to come out of Vietnam, and yet the author wasn’t stationed there.” Dr. Ronald Glasser, Bard of the Vietnam War Wounded, Dies at 83 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z As for playwrights, I’m a David Mamet fan. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Fishburne and his colleagues kept working on the play for months afterward, which Fishburne said had allowed him to dig into his role more deeply and better present the precise rhythms of Mamet’s language. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z This is true not only of Shakespeare, but also of linguistically rich latter-day writers like August Wilson, Caryl Churchill, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks and David Mamet. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z A writer like David Mamet has the rhythm, the poetry, the sound. The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z "I'm truly thrilled to be working on Mamet's incredible play with Damian," said Evans. Damian Lewis returns to West End 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Compassion!” and David Mamet’s “November,” but he is most profitably showcased in productions that nearly fit his robust comic style into the period in which it thrived, roughly the 1930s through the 1960s. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z Indeed, that’s the only music you get, as Mamet does not allow the regular kind or even amplification. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z An all-female production of Mr. Mamet’s acclaimed “Glengarry Glen Ross” is expected on Broadway this year. John Malkovich to Play Harvey Weinstein-Like Character in West End 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z As it happened, “Glengarry” went on to win the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and Mr. Mamet was later a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1995 for “The Cryptogram.” ArtsBeat: New David Mamet Play Set to Premiere in London This Fall 2011-04-01T14:56:31Z The “Sesame Street” franchise moved to HBO early this year, and it shows in the casting of the new special: The guest stars include Zosia Mamet of the HBO series “Girls.” Weathering a Blizzard of Christmas TV Programming 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Selling Hard, Yet Expecting to Fail The fight has gone out of the once-robust boys from “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of sharks in a small pond. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z What I like about his writing is the wordplay, it’s in the vein of David Mamet, his careful choice of words, even though it comes across as very natural. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z Huffman said that she felt dissatisfied after a recent preview performance and that Mamet offered some advice. Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z And Homeland star Damian Lewis returns to the West End stage for the first time in five years in a revival of David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo at Wyndham's Theatre between April and June. Theatre 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z On Thursday, producers announced that Mamet will be teaming up again with Al Pacino on a new play that will begin performances in New York in October 2015. Al Pacino will star in new David Mamet play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z “The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl. He intends to go into semiretirement, and enjoy himself,” Mamet continues. Al Pacino and David Mamet Reunite for 'China Doll' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z David Mamet's Race is about exactly what it says on the tin and it begins at Hampstead theatre on Thursday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z Mamet, known for plays such as “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and “Glengarry Glen Ross”, has written about sexual misconduct before, namely in “Oleanna” about a female student and her professor. John Malkovich to play disgraced movie mogul in new Mamet play 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Mamet wrote the play in response to the #MeToo allegations against Mr. Weinstein and others in Hollywood, the theater said. John Malkovich to Play Harvey Weinstein-Like Character in West End 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Mamet has had a tougher time with his newer works: “The Anarchist,” which also opened in 2012, was a fast flop. David Mamet's 'China Doll,' With Al Pacino, Leads at Box Office 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Mamet gave few details of the play, and his representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “I stopped loving acting for a very long time,” she says, adding that it was a role in a David Mamet play that reinvigorated her. Alicia Silverstone: 'I probably behaved not as well as I could have' 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z I was reminded of the scene in David Mamet’s “The Old Neighborhood” when one of the characters, Deeny, mentions how others react if you show them the house where you grew up. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The moment you hear Mamet working in 1920s Chicago, it’s obvious that this bullet-ridden era fits him as comfortably as a newsboy cap. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In “Chicago,” Mamet returns once again to the city where he was raised and where he started to work in theater. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z David Mamet’s play about three low-level crooks conjuring up a get-rich-quick scheme is returning to Broadway next year. Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ Is Headed Back to Broadway 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Mamet devotees and fans of plays of ideas should decide for themselves, which one suspects is precisely its author’s aim. 'Anarchist's' artful words don't make satisfying drama 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z But just a photo with Mamet wasn’t enough. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Zosia Mamet was the scene-stealer supreme of the HBO comedy “Girls,” her side plots often more compelling than the main narrative, so it’s no surprise that this starring vehicle is such a charmer. ‘Skate Kitchen,’ ‘Night Moves’ and More Streaming Gems 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It would be an overstatement to compare the movie to David Mamet’s “House of Games,” but Mr. Okoro spins a tangled web in which no transaction can be trusted. 17 Movies to Enjoy for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 17th Edition 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Huffman met Macy in New York in the early 1980s when he was leading acting workshops with Mamet and she was a theater student at New York University. Felicity Huffman: Desperate Housewife, Devoted Parent and Now a Defendant 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Much earlier, Mamet appeared to question the liberal outlook that he has said surrounded him in the theater world with his 1992 play “Oleanna.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z And unless you live in an alternative theatrical universe programmed by David Mamet for The Heritage Foundation, you’ve probably never seen their like onstage. Review: In ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ a Red-State Unicorn 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his play “Glengarry Glen Ross” about male power set in the cut-throat world of real estate. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In David Mamet’s 1997 film, “The Spanish Prisoner,” he played the possibly duplicitous boss of an inventor who has come up with a valuable idea. Ben Gazzara, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 81 2012-02-03T23:38:39Z But Mamet, who has made free speech a central issue lately, is not a fan of post-show discussions of his own works featuring members of the productions. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Whereas Miller and Williams's new work was ostracised by Broadway, Mamet's long succession of problem pieces have had high-budget, starry New York premieres. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z The legal setting helps explain the absence of one typical Mamet feature: profanity. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The cast and creators all seemed to be daughters of the famous, including Zosia Mamet, who plays Shoshanna, and whose father is the hugely successful playwright David Mamet. Zosia Mamet: the trouble with crowd-funding 2013-06-01T06:02:29Z The line, from David Mamet’s play Speed-The-Plow, belongs to the earnest secretary Karen, who is desperate to convince her Hollywood boss that she understands him. Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Make or Break the London Production of Speed-The-Plow 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The sustained locomotive surge of words rushing forward toward collision, a requisite for a Mamet production, was only rarely in evidence. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z What with the closing notice already posted for Mr. Mamet’s dreary new play “The Anarchist,” which opened last week, this season has not been kind to one of America’s greatest living playwrights. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” decreed in July that talkbacks within two hours of a performance of his work were forbidden. The theater talkback: Why they're popular, and why playwrights aren't always pleased 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Although the characters in David Mamet’s new novel, “Chicago,” never sound like real people, they always sound like David Mamet people, which is a strange indication of his success. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s never a good idea to be caught napping in the predatory world of Mr. Mamet. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The crackling, syncopated dialogue and the plot, full of reversals and double crosses, owe an obvious debt to David Mamet’s profane fables of deal-making machismo. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z No one can pen profanity quite like playwright David Mamet. Al Pacino will star in new David Mamet play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This new monologue is not delivered in one of Mamet’s dozens of plays or films, but in a friend-of-the-court brief that Mamet filed last month. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z At that time it was some of the first plays of Mamet and Sam Shepard, and Tennessee Williams was still alive. Baryshnikov Talks to Elizabeth LeCompte of Wooster Group 2010-03-26T22:20:00Z Speaking of Mamet, you played Teach in “American Buffalo.” The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z For Mamet men, such verbal speed is both part of the con’s patter and a way of confirming that they’re still alive, still in the game. Review: In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacino as an Urban Warrior in Winter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Like David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” King’s play, receiving its U.S. premiere at Studio Theatre, is a comedy of petty corruptions, activated by the base impulses that can drive the lust for a buck. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z “I feel like I got to see the style that Mamet is writing about just as it was disappearing,” he said. Out of the O.R., Back Onto the Stage 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z The company’s current home, on St. Marks Place, is a few blocks from where Sam Shepard wrote his first visceral wrestling matches and David Mamet’s testosterone-fused “Oleanna” opened in New York. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z Mamet, who turns 25 next month, hastens to add that she is living a much different life from Shoshanna and company. 1 of the 'Girls,' Zosia Mamet, shines in Season 2 2013-01-10T14:36:09Z "Speed-the-Plow" by David Mamet, with Lohan in the role first played by Madonna, opens in London later this month. Lindsay Lohan's Whitney Houston body-bag comment fails a reality check 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z And if I would tell myself, “Oh, David Mamet is in the audience tonight” — even if it was phony. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z As Isaac Butler at Parabasis points out, Mamet's piece contains his usual dose of entertainingly written but ultimately silly thinking, which "has the benefit of feeling true without actually being true in the slightest". Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z I don't think Mamet has reached his sell-by date - at least not in the sense that he's a terminally topical writer stuck in the era he emerged from. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z Unless you’re a well-known name, like David Mamet, your chances are smaller than small. Letters: Revivals: A Plea for New Playwrights 2010-02-26T15:29:00Z Pacino said in a statement that China Doll was a chance “to create a new character in the David Mamet canon.” Al Pacino and David Mamet Reunite for 'China Doll' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In which case, Mr. Marber’s keen-eyed attention to Mr. Mamet would in every way be repaid. Mind and Body, Wracked 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z David Mamet’s new play, “The Anarchist,” is built for two actresses who are expert at spitting nails. ArtsBeat Blog: LuPone and Metcalf to Square Off on Broadway in New Mamet Play 2011-11-03T18:23:15Z What Al Pacino will do with the role is one of the more interesting questions of the new revival of this David Mamet classic, which begins preview performances on Friday. The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z David Mamet's provocative play was originally staged on Broadway in 2009. VIDEO: Henry gatecrashes radio interview 2013-05-30T09:40:11Z "Helen's performances reap higher praise than being praised, they're loved," Mamet said. Helen Mirren "happy" her Hollywood star next to Colin Firth's 2013-01-04T00:24:39Z Closer on the calendar, the producer Jeffrey Richards announced on Thursday that “China Doll,” a new play by David Mamet and starring Al Pacino, will begin performances on Oct. It'll Be 'Groundhog Day' on Broadway for 'Matilda' Team 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z There seems an even more direct connection to “American Buffalo,” and I don’t think that’s only because David Mamet’s career-defining play was just seen on the West End in a wobbly revival. Mind and Body, Wracked 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z She says she gets along well with her stepmother and her siblings; in fact, Clara, whom Mamet called one of her best friends, also recently forayed into the family business. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Subsequently, the carefully exact rhythms of Mamet's dialogue are regularly interrupted by the desire of ticket-buyers to honour many of the star's intonations and gestures. Broadway is too clap happy 2012-11-05T16:38:47Z Mamet suggests that this cripples the theatrical exchange, which hinges on the spectator relinquishing rationality. The Edinburgh festival offers plenty for free but is it better to pay? 2010-08-10T13:30:00Z So in an old barn, fighting off a cold that was blossoming into full-blown pneumonia, Mamet recorded an audition tape. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z David Mamet's provocative play has paid back its $2.5 million production costs, the first new play of the season to do so. Mamet's 'Race' recoups its B'way production costs 2010-04-21T22:16:00Z For high school, Mamet attended the exclusive private school Crossroads and hated it — but that might just be because school as a concept didn’t make much sense to her. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Mamet was impressed with Ryan's play "One in the Chamber" and suggested that she direct "The Anarchist." Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z In his aggressive but rigorously commonsensical book Theatre, David Mamet argues for the importance of the financial transaction. The Edinburgh festival offers plenty for free but is it better to pay? 2010-08-10T13:30:00Z Mamet, known for plays like “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and “Glengarry Glen Ross”, has previously written about sexual misconduct, namely in his 1992 play “Oleanna” about a female student and her professor. Malkovich returns to London stage as disgraced producer in Mamet play 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z He landed his first major acting job on Broadway in 1977 as an understudy in the David Mamet drama “American Buffalo.” Jon Polito, character actor in ‘Homicide,’ Coen brothers films, dies at 65 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z David Mamet is a playwright, author and director. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Theater Review | 'A Life in the Theatre' From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet Published: October 12, 2010 The words delicate and David Mamet seldom appear in close proximity. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z The lobby at Circle in the Square features a forlorn buffalo, waiting for a revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” to begin. Showtime, Suspended 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In "The Anarchist," by David Mamet, a former political radical who has served 35 years in jail argues for clemency from a prison official who holds the power to set her free. Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z June 10 T. R. Knight Finds New ‘Life in the Theater’ Mr. Knight, the "Grey's Anatomy" star, will join Patrick Stewart in the Broadway production of the David Mamet play. T. R. Knight Finds New 'Life in the Theater' 2010-06-10T17:00:00Z Mamet was inspired by the lingo and behavior of Chicago con artists he often played poker with early in his career. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z First, Ms. Mamet said hi to Ben Younger, a film director who was on the jury for narrative films, who then introduced her to DJ Stretch Armstrong. Night Out With Clara Mamet: A Night Out With Clara Mamet Debuting Her Film ‘Two-Bit Waltz’ at the Tribeca Film Festival 2014-04-18T20:20:29Z "The Anarchist," Mamet's last original play to debut on Broadway, sounded like two typewriters clacking at each other. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Huffman has acted in a number of Mamet's plays, including "November" at the Mark Taper Forum two years ago. 'The Anarchist' by David Mamet coming to L.A. with Felicity Huffman 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Zosia Mamet is fantastic in everything she's in, and I'm not just saying that because I'm still obsessed with "Girls" and make a point to re-watch the series once a year. "The Flight Attendant" recap: Dapper death 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z One feels that Jack's later aperçu that "Jews deal with guilt, blacks deal with shame" as a way of metabolising their inferiority has Mamet's approval. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z Preoccupation with effect is preoccupation with the self," Mamet writes, "and it is not only joyless, it is a waste of time ... The underrated genius of Steve Buscemi 2010-09-20T21:01:00Z When these two plays were staged in New York by Lincoln Center Theater in 1985, they were widely dismissed by critics as second-rate Mamet. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Racial and sexual epithets, of a nature to make David Mamet flinch, are flung as well. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z This is meaty and oddly moving stuff, right out of Arthur Miller or David Mamet, and I wish I could say that Professor X’s prose retains its poise and elastic snap throughout. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z But with Williams and Mamet both labelling it "the best job on TV", and the cast already signed up to make season four, nobody seems in any rush for them to sort their lives out. Girls wants 'to normalise sex on TV' 2014-01-20T07:24:21Z "I was just trying to get to third base," says Mamet. Pacino as a faded music whiz charged with murder 2013-03-21T14:43:15Z And does Mr. Mamet, whose brawny, expletive-filled early plays remain stage mainstays decades after their debuts, still have something to say to a contemporary audience? David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z If one were accurately to punctuate Walken’s speech, a typical sentence would look like something written by David Mamet on a rough day. Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’ 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Mamet was the exciting young playwright du jour when “A Life in the Theatre” was first seen in New York. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z And so I did,” Mamet, who has been a force in U.S. theater and film for over 40 years, told the Chicago Tribune. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Consciously or subconsciously, Mamet seems to me to have been coarsened by financial pressure. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z "China Doll," written by Mamet, is a two-character play in which Pacino will star as a billionaire who is having an especially busy day. Al Pacino will star in new David Mamet play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He recently played a character based on Harvey Weinstein in the David Mamet farce Bitter Wheat. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Or that Ms. LuPone has been a significant interpreter of the work of David Mamet. Books of The Times: Glory and Misery on the Way to Stardom 2010-10-07T22:52:00Z Whereas Pinter’s slippery speech telegraphs menace, Mamet’s salesmen strategically avoid conflict. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z Mr. Mamet, in a statement, said he wrote the play for Mr. Pacino, who also starred in a 1992 film version of “Glengarry” and a 1983 Broadway production of Mr. Mamet’s “American Buffalo.” Al Pacino Will Return To Broadway in New Mamet Play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This crackling revival of “American Buffalo” highlights by contrast the devolution of Mamet’s craft that coincided with the shift in his worldview, from red-diaper baby to apologist for billionaires. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the director, Eli Russell Linnetz, 24, a University of Southern California graduate and former assistant to David Mamet, was used to pulling off improbably big visions. Meet the 24-Year-Old Director Bringing Kanye West’s Visions to Life 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “It was the first time in my confused young life,” Mr. Mamet added, “that I had learned that work is love.” Bob Sickinger, 86, Father of Chicago’s Theater Scene 2013-05-14T23:53:44Z Celebrity stylist June Ambrose, toting her two kids, bagged pleated trousers from Etro, while Girls star Zosia Mamet sifted through racks of couture clothing. Donna Karan's Haute $3.5 Million Hampton's Garage Sale 2013-09-05T13:02:00Z He sent the script to Kerry Washington, an actress he had worked with nearly a decade ago, in the David Mamet play “Race,” and who had since become a celebrity via television’s “Scandal.” This Broadway Season, the Play’s Really the Thing 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Jay’s friend and sometimes collaborator, David Mamet, also materializes, as do more traditional magicians, none of whom dazzle as brightly as the movie’s subject. Movie Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ 2013-04-17T20:40:36Z Nor is David Mamet known for a laissez-faire attitude toward productions of his work. Is Broadway Stuck on Replay? 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Mamet still knows how to write, but is infinitely better at satirising the law than laying it down. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z British playwright Tom Stoppard and American David Mamet have both re-worked works by the humble, often bespectacled Chekhov, and women revered him for giving them a strong voice by creating complex female characters. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Even in a season featuring two works by a king of Anglo-Saxon expletives like David Mamet, this comedy by David West Read may well clock the most obscenities per minute of any play on Broadway. Theater Review: ‘The Performers,’ With Henry Winkler and Cheyenne Jackson 2012-11-15T03:07:21Z As Bruno plays high-stakes competitions in cities like Singapore, the early parts of “A Gambler’s Anatomy” read like a caper narrative concocted by Elmore Leonard or David Mamet. Review: In Jonathan Lethem’s ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy,’ a Hustler’s Luck Runs Cold 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Now, in a twist of which David Mamet would be proud, hackers cajoled one of those studios, Sony, into not releasing a new movie. The Year in Movies 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Mamet, who had a brief stint selling real estate in Chicago, dedicated “Glengarry” to the British dramatist Harold Pinter, whose plays are ferocious battles where the weapons of choice are cryptic statements. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z The veteran improvisers Hunter Nelson and Terry Withers take on the dramatic stylings of David Mamet in this show, which they cheekily claim is a workshop of that playwright’s latest, ever-evolving script. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Mamet contrasts Teach’s macho postures with Don’s gentler but by no means refined version of masculinity: avuncular yet menacing, slower to anger yet never quite nice. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Has playing the pope and also a Harvey Weinstein-type figure in David Mamet’s recent play “Bitter Wheat” led you to any new insights about men in power? ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Dramatically, however, Mamet leads with his strongest – a merciless attack on the pageant of justice and the need for counsels to impose their chosen narrative on a gullible jury. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z Lohan, 28, is taking the role once made famous by Madonna in Mamet’s play. Lindsay Lohan: I had to roll Whitney Houston's body bag 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z And the sameness of the settings makes the movie seem a bit like a filmed play — one from David Mamet, for example, with a little less swearing. 'Margin Call' is a timely Wall Street thriller 2011-10-20T20:07:04Z And he saw me in a movie by David Mamet called “Things Change.” Dr. Katz will see you now 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z “Sam Shepard was doing ‘Fool for Love,’ David Mamet was doing ‘Glengarry Glen Ross.’ The secret to Tony Awards nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The cultural dilution of David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” continues with “About Last Night,” an adaptation/remake with even less of the play’s DNA than the dreadful original film. ‘About Last Night’: A one-night stand best forgotten 2014-02-12T23:56:10Z He wanted to rage; he wanted to turn the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into a bad simulacrum of a David Mamet play. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z David Mamet has become a born-again political conservative. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z Over the years, they have navigated Mamet's dialogue numerous times on stage and screen. Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The actor and daughter of David Mamet has asked for more than $30,000 on Kickstarter to make a music video with her sister. Zosia Mamet: the trouble with crowd-funding 2013-06-01T06:02:29Z American playwright David Mamet expressed a similar view when he talked to this newspaper in 1999 after making a film of The Winslow Boy. Film of The Deep Blue Sea returns playwright Terence Rattigan to the spotlight 2011-08-20T23:06:28Z In 2008, he made his Broadway debut, playing a heroin addict in a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, to mixed reviews. Haley Joel Osment on The Sixth Sense: 'A lot of child actors have a positive experience' 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Truth, at least in this case, is more Mametian than Mamet. Life pulses like hip-hop at 'Gus's Fashions & Shoes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The philosophy displayed in Buscemi's work as both actor and filmmaker reminds me of a passage from David Mamet's back-to-basics manifesto "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor." The underrated genius of Steve Buscemi 2010-09-20T21:01:00Z "There's a David Mamet quote, 'If a man's smarter than me then I ask myself, what would he do?" Timothy Olyphant: a law unto himself 2010-04-29T19:00:00Z But the short answer would seem to be that Mr. Mamet is less interested in theater as an art these days than as a platform for discussion. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z Reviews were mostly positive when the play opened Dec. 8, or at least were far better than a new Mamet play that closed quickly this fall, "The Anarchist." Al Pacino wins as 'Glengarry Glen Ross' recoups 2012-12-19T18:31:05Z A veteran Mamet actor, Mr. Williams now lives year-round not far from the playhouse, on 16 rolling acres with a little orchard and a pond. For Stephen Adly Guirgis, the Long Road Back to a First Love: Acting 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z With no word from his sister, Richie drags Sophia on a surreal all-night tour of downscale locales that evokes a David Mamet play set in 1980s New York or Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours.” Emmy Rossum in Shawn Christensen’s ‘Before I Disappear’ 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It will be directed by Lindsay Posner, who previously directed other Mamet plays including Oleanna, A Life in the Theatre and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Lindsay Lohan to make West End debut 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Mean Girls actress Lindsay Lohan is to make her West End and stage debut later this year in a revival of David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow. Lindsay Lohan to make West End debut 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Pidgeon said that Mamet left them to their own devices at first. Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon work to set 'Anarchist' free 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z For me, though, episode six in the first season, called Security and penned and directed by Mamet himself, provides the show's standout moment, a sublime mini-masterclass in character and plotting. Your next box set: The Unit 2012-07-05T14:30:01Z It may sit uneasily with our notion of Shakespeare to imagine him tackling the hot-button issues of his era like a Jacobean David Mamet. An inventive, lively 'Equivocation' at Theatricum Botanicum 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z I found more truth in Mamet's books about theatre, more truth relating to my life in comics, than anything I've come across. Real-life violence rocks the Comic-Con nerds in San Diego 2010-07-25T13:25:00Z As delivered by Mr. Howard in a lethargic drawl, these words flow a lot more smoothly than they would appear to on the page, a reminder that Mr. Mamet is often better heard than read. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Mamet headed up 12th Street in the West Village, where she walked past townhouses and apartment buildings. Night Out With Clara Mamet: A Night Out With Clara Mamet Debuting Her Film ‘Two-Bit Waltz’ at the Tribeca Film Festival 2014-04-18T20:20:29Z As he did with “Race” and “November,” Mr. Richards said he gave feedback to Mr. Mamet on “The Anarchist,” and that he did not once imagine that the play would crash at the box office. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z “The loyalty to Mamet is a real risk because he’s not writing the hits that he once was.” David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z These days, in addition to people wanting to say hi and pose for photos with her, Mamet is finding a lot of strangers suddenly want to tell her about their sex lives too. Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z Mamet embraced the Trump presidency; he told The Guardian earlier this year that Trump had done a “great job” as president and suggested that his defeat in 2020 was “questionable.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z One person who thinks that the politics of Mamet’s plays — to say nothing of his punditry — are largely irrelevant to his plays’ success is Mamet himself. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z He even handled his role in Freddy Got Fingered like it had come from an undiscovered Mamet play. 'Raw, sad, hilarious': how Rip Torn lit up TV with The Larry Sanders Show 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Oscar- and Tony-winning actor Al Pacino will return to Broadway next year in the world premiere of "China Doll," a new play by David Mamet, its producers said on Thursday. Al Pacino to return to Broadway in Mamet's 'China Doll' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Mamet later went on to equate "the left" with some sort of "death cult." David Mamet says teachers are "inclined to pedophilia," perpetuating right-wing grooming rhetoric 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The production, which Mamet himself directed, closed a little more than two weeks after opening. 'The Anarchist' by David Mamet coming to L.A. with Felicity Huffman 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z David Mamet's Race considers relations between black and white at Hampstead. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z On the subject of acting Mr. Mamet’s language, Mr. Pacino recalled a lesson from a production of that playwright’s “American Buffalo”: He moved onstage less and less the more he performed. The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z Mr. Falls vividly remembers Mr. Nussbaum as the con artist Teach in the world premiere of Mr. Mamet’s “American Buffalo” here in 1975. Exit, Stage Left, Grasping Cane; Enter, Sprinting 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z As both Teach and Mamet might argue, let the market have its say. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Britain's culture secretary, Maria Miller, keeps asking theatre to come up with arguments to justify subsidy; perhaps someone should send her a bound copy of Mamet's last six plays. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z Two doors down at the Golden Theater is Mr. Mamet’s latest box-office flop: The premiere of “The Anarchist,” his 70-minute meditation on crime and punishment, which opened on Sunday night to scathing reviews. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z Nonetheless, the trial-and-error lifestyle portrayed on "Girls" resonates for Mamet and loads of people she knows as they reach the expiration date for their precociousness. 1 of the 'Girls,' Zosia Mamet, shines in Season 2 2013-01-10T14:36:09Z Another conspicuous exception: “China Doll,” a new play by David Mamet, which grossed a whopping $1.2 million in seven preview performances. Halloween Week Scares Away Broadway Audiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Fishburne, 60, was speaking, in that velvet baritone, a few hours before his call at Circle in the Square for the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” a brisk study in hustle and flow. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Another angle is the new Gilded Age version of one of those classic Mamet con men from "American Buffalo" or "Glengarry." In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Including November, Race and The Anarchist, Mamet has now had six critical and/or box-office disappointments in a row. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z Currently living in London, Lohan will make her London stage debut in a production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow on 24 September at Playhouse theatre. Lindsay Lohan sues over Grand Theft Auto V character 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He appeared on Broadway in a 2008 revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo.” Emmy host Cedric the Entertainer says stuffiness is banned 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z There’s much to admire about playwright MacAllister-McDonald’s knack for dialogue and inventive structure, with some simultaneous sequences that suggest David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” gone bipolar. 'The Sexual Life of Savages' at the Beverly Hills Playhouse 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z And he translates that emotional chaos into dialogue that is as tellingly rhythmic as that of David Mamet but that sounds a lot more spontaneous. ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Get your act together and think like a playwright; Mamet, Fry, Beckett! Watch my lips: the art of ventriloquism deserves centre stage 2010-08-27T10:02:00Z Race – though sometimes sketchy and preachy, as seems to be the manner of late Mamet – is, for me, by far the most satisfying of his theatre plays in the last two decades. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z This Broadway opening was delayed ostensibly so that Mamet could continue to work on the play. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z “I always love to do a Mamet play,” said LuPone, who has done three on Broadway. Streaming Plays Give Big-Name Actors a Chance to Give Back 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In this staging of David Mamet’s 1984 play — with Blake grafted in from the 1992 film adaptation — the salesmen whom Blake hectors stood behind Dr. Schmidt. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z At some point, though, I realized that it wasn’t a play by Mamet that “Season” recalled, but “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s 1968 drama of unhappy homosexuals. | 'That Championship Season': The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation?s Scars 2011-03-07T03:01:04Z I could imagine “A Streetcar Named Desire” frolicking with “Mother Courage” in the Elysian fields, while David Mamet’s recent works would most likely be getting toasty in the underworld. Review: A ‘Paradise Lost’ More Dutiful Than Divine 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z This is strange, since Mr. Mosher made his name with impeccably synchronized ensemble productions of plays by David Mamet. | 'That Championship Season': The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation?s Scars 2011-03-07T03:01:04Z To quote one of my favorite tautologies, from David Mamet’s “Heist”: “Everybody wants money. That’s why they call it money.” ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 3: Making It and Faking It 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z An homage to “Things Change,” the David Mamet film set in Chicago? ArtsBeat: 'Good Wife' Watch: Diane's Latest Inappropriate Admirer 2012-01-09T06:00:13Z Jeffrey Richards, a Broadway producer with whom Mamet has collaborated often, also did not immediately respond. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “But any time David Mamet goes to bat, like any great playwright, he becomes a target — whether he is Eugene O’Neill, or Tennessee Williams, or Edward Albee, or David Mamet, he becomes a target.” Delayed Opening for Mamet's 'China Doll' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z If the purpose of theatre, as David Mamet wrote, is to “inspire cleansing awe,” then actors, at their best, are secular servants to the ineffable. Waiting for Cumberbatch 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “I think about this a lot now. I have a bunch of daughters, a young son,” Mamet said in the interview. U.S. playwright David Mamet turns his sights on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z What happens to Mamet’s turkeys is a riot, and it’s effortless comedy because it mines the zany premise we know to be true. Perspective | Trump’s presidential turkey pardon felt like a reality show meets absurdist theater 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z David Mamet says we only have the right to judge a theatrical production on personal taste once we've paid for a ticket - but is he right? The Edinburgh festival offers plenty for free but is it better to pay? 2010-08-10T13:30:00Z The Letters, particularly in its opening minutes, conveys a sense of abstract menace reminiscent of Pinter or Mamet. A Stage Triumph in Chicago: The Letters — Menacing Head Games in Stalin’s Russia 2013-01-29T15:30:58Z The plot here, like that of many a Mamet story, involves a scam. | 'The Submission': ?The Submission,? at Lucille Lortel Theater - Review 2011-09-28T02:01:20Z Allen is no stranger to the format, having collaborated with May and David Mamet for "Death Defying Acts," three effervescent one-act comedies that debuted in 1995. Woody Allen to return to Broadway this fall 2011-05-17T22:31:06Z Photograph: Alastair Muir Mamet wants to tell us that it's impossible for people with black skin and people with white skin to speak truthfully about each other in America. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z They pretended to be assistants in the office of David Mamet, the notoriously Hollywood-averse playwright: arranging each other appointments with agents, casting directors and producers, drawing on their experience selling health-club memberships. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Mamet may be best known for his loud explosions of obscenities. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Jay was a frequent presence in the films of David Mamet, including “House of Games.” A magical trove of Ricky Jay ephemera hits auction block 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z He sees Mamet’s mark on works of prestige television such as “The Wire.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z As he spirals downward, he prattles on about the impossibility of fidelity in marriage, the power struggle between men and women — more echoes of Mamet, but without his misogyny. Domesticated: What Happens After the Sex Scandal 2013-11-05T10:45:25Z In manner, he wouldn’t seem out of place in a David Mamet play or maybe “Rent.” ‘God’s Fool’ Review: A Singing, Beat Poet Saint 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Whether Mr. Mamet had enough objectivity to see flaws in “The Anarchist” once he began directing it is an open question, but some producers said on Wednesday that such critical distance was difficult for playwrights. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z Such passion is unlikely to result from “What Comes Around,” a drama that shares with Mamet’s story an incendiary premise pinned to sexual politics, but lacks the electricity necessary to set off sparks. ‘What Comes Around’ Review: A Triangle of Power Dynamics 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z In language as crass and cadenced as gunfire, Mamet turned their man-eat-man philosophy, which some call capitalism, into brutal prole poetry: a poetry of predation, you might even say. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z New plays by David Mamet and George Brant and a new musical from David Yazbek will be among the offerings in the Atlantic Theater’s 2016-17 season, the Off Broadway company announced on Monday. Mamet to Return to the Atlantic Theater Next Season 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “I think 1971,” he says, and I expect him to mention his old theatre days with the likes of David Mamet and Joe Mantegna. William H Macy: 'It was 104 degrees and I had on thermals, shirt, hoodie, jacket and muffler' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Mamet’s cussing crew have shown what dog-eat-dog capitalism can make men do. Norris has been brewing a comedy so toxic with hypocrisy and resentment that the laughter practically scalds our throats. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A production of “The Minutes” by Tracy Letts and “American Buffalo” by David Mamet will arrive on Broadway in Spring 2021, opening exactly one year after their originally scheduled opening dates. Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until January 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The revival marks the 30th anniversary of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the backbiting world of salesmen. John C McGinley of 'Scrubs' fame comes to Broadway 2012-08-06T21:46:04Z Nor did I hear that singular, pulse-racing music that I associate with Mamet's dialogue. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z In everyday conversation, I'm something of a one-woman David Mamet play myself, but there are only two women I've ever referred to by the c-word in my life — and neither to their faces. Let’s not normalize the c-word: Why the “worst word” you can call a woman matters 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Like Mamet, Williams says that moving on from Marnie hasn’t been easy. Nuns and Patti Smith: what Lena Dunham and the Girls will do next 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The papers add to the Ransom Center’s expanding collection of materials from Jewish writers including Singer, Malamud, Leon Uris, Mailer and David Mamet. ArtsBeat Blog: Commentary Magazine Archive Given to University of Texas 2011-09-19T16:08:01Z Mamet realised that "the job of the director is to tell the story through the juxtaposition of uninflected images". Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z In its depiction of ruthless men who will stop at nothing to serve their own ends, one might also discern a nod to Mr. Mamet. Review: In ‘Red Speedo,’ a Swimmer Faces a Moral Quandary 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He supported the mammoth theatrical undertakings of Robert Wilson, produced the American premiere of David Mamet’s “The Cryptogram” and was an early champion of the work of Suzan-Lori Parks. Commentary: Robert Brustein and the double-edged sword of authority in criticism 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z In the transition from enfant terrible to elder statesman, Mamet refashioned himself as a neocon crank, sounding off like a regular contributor to the comments section of Breitbart News. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z “I am the luckiest palooka,” he said, and gave a shout-out to both mentor David Mamet and his wife, Felicity Huffman, in the audience. 20 years ago at the Emmys: This lead actor blew a raspberry in his acceptance speech 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Through the years, Arkin turned up in such favorites as “Edward Scissorhands,” playing Johnny Depp’s neighbor; and in the film version of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” as a dogged real estate salesman. Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ actor, dies at 89 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “Working with Treat Williams in Mamet’s “Speed the Plow” at Williamstown in ’91 was the start of great friendship,” tweeted writer, director and producer Justine Williams. ‘Hair,’ ‘Everwood’ actor Treat Williams killed in Vermont motorcycle crash 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The notion of a retrospective, a staple of museum programming, is less common in the theater, where audiences have been trained to think of theater outings as one-night-stands — wham, bam, thank you Mamet. Commentary: The best theater in L.A. right now? It's in Pasadena 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Whether the subject is the craft of playwriting or the failures of the American theater, Mamet holds forth as though he were lecturing a class of idiots. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z In David Mamet’s comedy “Boston Marriage,” the character Claire says: “Yes, this shall be our party. And we must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” Pie, Made Easy 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The shows this time vying for hardware are an extremely varied lot, from a David Mamet revival to one by Paula Vogel, golden-age classics like “Funny Girl” to very current entries like “A Strange Loop.” ‘Shine the light’: Ariana DeBose talks hosting Tony Awards 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z This time, the Mamet play asked simply for him to create a thrift shop in Chicago in the 1970s. Designer Scott Pask creates ‘a beautiful mess’ on Broadway 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Whatever you make of Mamet’s regressive attitudes, the Broadway business model has undeniably depended on brand familiarity, spectacle and celebrity to draw in the vacationing masses. Commentary: What the 2022 Tony nominations say about the state of Broadway 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The opening scene may be Mamet’s strongest in years. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The potential shows eligible for nominations are an extremely varied lot, from a David Mamet revival to one by Paula Vogel. Packed Tony nominations show return of pre-pandemic Broadway 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Why, asks Mamet, were White audiences so eager to watch such a film? Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Mamet’s best work — we won’t speak of some of his deeply flawed efforts of the past decade — is activated by the art of the shoddy deal. Review | James McAvoy is a Cyrano knockout, and Sam Rockwell is a blast in Mamet 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In his screed against Broadway, Mamet writes off off-Broadway and says regional theaters have killed any natural affection for the art form with their relentless focus on “outreach” and “social consciousness.” Commentary: What the 2022 Tony nominations say about the state of Broadway 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z In Mamet work, characters don’t exist prior to their dialogue but create themselves through the words they deploy with various degrees of cunning. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z She recounts waiting tables for Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts while she awaits her big break and landing auditions in Hollywood by calling agents and pretending to be David Mamet’s assistant. Molly Shannon’s tragedy and perseverance in ‘Hello, Molly!’ 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z This is where the alchemy of popular culture comes in, says Mamet. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Mamet’s trademark in “American Buffalo” is the epithet-laden street talk that so majestically captures the cadences of small-time hustlers. Review | James McAvoy is a Cyrano knockout, and Sam Rockwell is a blast in Mamet 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Coetzee, Pulitzer Prize winners David Mamet and Norman Mailer, and David Foster Wallace among the works of more than 100 writers from around the U.S. and the world. Staley, who led growth of Ransom Center archive, dies at 86 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Mamet requires a director to treat the play as a score, paying exquisite attention to modulation and clarity of utterance. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Mamet’s amicus brief is titled “Lessons from Aerial Navigation,” and as it’s two pages long, you should really just go read it. David Mamet filed a short story about airplanes to back Texas’ terrible social media law 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Mamet seems beyond working at it, and I presume beyond receiving or accepting honest feedback from editors or friends. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z One hesitates to drag the ridiculous public commentary of a writer — even one as celebrated as Mamet — into a review. Review | James McAvoy is a Cyrano knockout, and Sam Rockwell is a blast in Mamet 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The playwright David Mamet, writing scornfully in 1998 about “pseudoart,” observed that “people are drawn to summer movies because they are not satisfying, and so they offer opportunities to repeat the compulsion.” How TikTok Reads Your Mind 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z But under Ryan’s direction, the less experienced Mamet performers seem to be acting for an invisible camera. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z In response Mamet is supporting HB 20, a currently blocked Texas law that’s meant to discourage web services from moderating conservative posts and users. David Mamet filed a short story about airplanes to back Texas’ terrible social media law 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z But Mamet in “Recessional” is a lazy writer. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z That would be David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” at Broadway’s Circle in the Square, where — in its fourth Broadway incarnation since 1977 — it officially opened, also Thursday night. Review | James McAvoy is a Cyrano knockout, and Sam Rockwell is a blast in Mamet 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z David Mamet has emerged as a rival god in the writers room. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z For Mamet, human relationships are all about power. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Among Baldwin’s earliest producing credits were an executive producer credit on “State and Main,” David Mamet’s 2000 satire about a movie production that overruns a small New England town. Alec Baldwin is credited as a producer on 'Rust.' What does that really mean? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Mamet is also, on the evidence of this book, a lazy reader. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z If that’s not enough to kill a theater, it should at least reduce it to something meek, brittle and risk-averse, a dusty museum for safe chestnuts: Sam Shepard, David Mamet, early Tom Stoppard. An inside look at the improbable longevity of Seattle’s scrappy Annex Theatre 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Mamet’s savage comedy is closer to the ethos of our Trumpian age, and “Succession” rubs our noses in what we’ve become. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z But I’m grateful to have been belatedly invited to “Henry Johnson” for the simple reason that it proves that Mamet still has much to teach us about the dark side of human relations. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Assembly line revivals of Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder and David Mamet hardly seem worth the effort at this point. My dream for theater: Toss the old business model in the dumpster fire of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Mamet seems to have read or listened to none of them. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Mamet wrote, "After a full year and many adventures together we decided to get a little memento. Thank you @evantattoo 💛#theflightattendant ✈️✨" Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet get matching tattoos after filming TV series 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy contains behavior far more depraved than anything dreamt of in Mamet’s philosophy. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z David Mamet has recently unveiled a new play, “Henry Johnson,” at the Electric Lodge in Venice. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Minutes,” a new play by Tracy Letts, a Pulitzer winner for “August: Osage County,” and a revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” were scheduled for openings this past spring. Broadway will remain shuttered until at least January 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Mamet’s writing is a little bit more interesting than these guys’ demagoguery. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z You’ve called Stephen Sondheim and David Mamet your two biggest influences. Patti LuPone braces for theater's long closure: 'I was made tough by this business' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z By contrast, in Mamet’s universe, much like in Trump’s America, there are winners and losers. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The reason you likely haven’t heard much about this offering is that this is one of Mamet’s clandestine world premieres. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t long before he linked up with acclaimed theater legend David Mamet, the mind behind classic plays such as “Oleanna,” “American Buffalo” and “Glengarry Glen Ross.” William H. Macy: A look back at his career 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z He’s David effing Mamet, one of the great living playwrights of the English-speaking world, a brilliant man and an extraordinarily stylish writer. Review | In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z But the article on Mamet’s “Christopher Boy’s Communion,” which just ended its two-week trial run at the Odyssey Theatre, reads like a review. Reader feedback on 'Hillary' doc, Plácido's 'hugs' and LACMA, LACMA, LACMA 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z How would the writers manage to sustain this Mamet card trick? The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps the 75-year-old Mamet has grown tired of getting burned by unflattering reviews. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z “Bitter Wheat,” the play he opened last year in London, occasioned the Vanity Fair headline: “David Mamet’s Harvey Weinstein Play Signifies Nothing.” Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z While Iacovelli was finishing “Arsenic and Old Lace,” David Mamet called, asking him to design the set for his new play at the Odyssey. Column: Design, then adjust: L.A. production designer rolls with challenges on, off stage 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z He’s worked extensively with playwright David Mamet, appearing in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Glengarry Glen Ross” and his films “House of Games,” “Things Change” and “Homicide.” Veteran actor Joe Mantegna floats Toluca Lake Tudor onto the market 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z A 90-minute play by one of Mamet’s disciples might more potently make the same point. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Believe it or not, this quotable taunt was from Mamet’s more temperate days, before right-wing conspiracy theories and unhinged demagoguery set in. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Few are as adept at delivering the pitch and rhythm of a Mamet script as Pidgeon, but Joan is impossible to place. Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z We are the ultimate closers, you are taught, embracing the winners-and-losers philosophy espoused in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet’s play about real estate sales. The Lost Decade of New York Sports 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z His first production was David Mamet’s “A Life in the Theatre” in 1980. How Joe Stern made Hollywood's Matrix Theater dramatically diverse 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The daughter of playwright David Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse, Mamet made appearances in “Parenthood” and “Mad Men” before landing a main role in HBO’s “Girls.” ‘Girls’ star Zosia Mamet brings Upper West Side co-op to market in Manhattan 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In 2013, I wrote a piece titled “The Problem With David Mamet,” in which I diagnosed a “hardening in his work not just of ideology but of imagination.” Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z In their silences as well as in their speech, the actors endowed their roles with granularity while respecting Mamet’s clean style. Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The staging of Mamet and Berkoff’s dramas raised questions of timing and sensitivity. Theatre and #MeToo: 'There's a new anger in women's stories' 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z “Please permit an American Jew to offer his appreciation of your strong support of Israel,” Mamet wrote by hand. For sale: William Safire’s book collection. The inscriptions from his enemies are delicious. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Dark Money arrives hot on the heels of Bitter Wheat - a new David Mamet play which opened in London last month. The TV drama that became topical by accident 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Mamet’s gift for staccato verbal sparring transformed the way characters communicate on the American stage. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z These are politically and culturally strange times, and as a theater critic ensconced in the coastal progressive echo chamber, I thought it might be useful to hear what’s on Mamet’s mind these days. Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z “I’m not interested in his perspective. The playwright Mathilde Dratwa has written A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein and, between the two, I’m much more tempted to see that.” Theatre and #MeToo: 'There's a new anger in women's stories' 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z David Mamet’s “Bitter Wheat,” a satire inspired by a Harvey Weintsein-esque character and the #MeToo movement, has opened in London and the reviews are ... not good. Essential Arts: The L.A. Phil’s centennial season was full of ‘good vibrations’ 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z It essentially starts out as a comedy - with an opening scene that zips along with writer and director David Mamet's comedic and cutting fast-paced dialogue, wrong-footing the audience in the process. Malkovich tackles 'difficult' Weinstein-inspired play 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say, I was content to remain in the dark about Mamet’s latest. Commentary: Critics weren't invited to David Mamet's new play. Then the show's star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z But the zeitgeist has a way of coming through Mamet’s unique lens, as it does in the opening scene of “The Christopher Boy’s Communion.” Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Among the first was David Mamet, known for his preoccupation with power and its abuse, often refracted through lethally predatory masculinity in his plays. Theatre and #MeToo: 'There's a new anger in women's stories' 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The horrific story of sexual predation falls short — way short — of Mamet’s mark, reviews say. David Mamet’s Harvey Weinstein play opens. The reviews? ‘Monstrous misfire’ 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z "Mamet's new play, we are assured, is fiction and any resemblance to living persons is 'entirely coincidental'," wrote Michael Billington in The Guardian. Malkovich tackles 'difficult' Weinstein-inspired play 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z But I was only becoming acquainted with a playwright who melds a unique set of influences: Plato’s dialogues, Brecht’s epic theater, Shaw’s comedy of ideas and Mamet’s stylish polemics, to name the most prominent. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Mamet has created in Hollis a representative of the aggrieved American male. Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Yet Berkoff and Mamet’s dramas seemed so closely tethered to real events that they offer little insights beyond what we already know from news stories. Theatre and #MeToo: 'There's a new anger in women's stories' 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter: “David Mamet’s latest effort, which the playwright has also directed, is just as diagrammatic, glib and insincere as any over-massaged middlebrow Miramax film from the 1990s.” David Mamet’s Harvey Weinstein play opens. The reviews? ‘Monstrous misfire’ 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Henry Hitchings of The Evening Standard said: "Despite a smattering of Mamet's famously staccato wisecracks, the play feels lazy, crude and empty." Malkovich tackles 'difficult' Weinstein-inspired play 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Comparisons with “Oleanna” are unavoidable, but Burgess is a far less tendentious playwright than David Mamet. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The writing has flashes of concentrated strength that confirm that this is indeed the same Mamet who changed the American theater with “American Buffalo” and “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z “And at the same time it took me back to my theater days where you have the faced-paced language, like David Mamet, that New York feel.” Chadwick Boseman, Kelly Clarkson, more help hype STX Films 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z It may not knock Mamet off his pedestal, but it warrants no trophy either — quite a fail.” David Mamet’s Harvey Weinstein play opens. The reviews? ‘Monstrous misfire’ 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z |
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