David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross": Text and Performance (Studies in Modern Drama)
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play of a certain era: early Mamet, post-sexual revolution, pre-AIDS.<p/> Written in 1974, the play flits from one short scene to the next, providing a snapshot of twentysomething big city ``romance'' and serving as a window into the younger Mamet's mind. This is a work that is funny, foul-mouthed and more than a little...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David Mamet made his screen directorial debut in 1987 with a film called House of Games, which he also co-wrote. More than 20 years later, the piece is set to receive its stage premiere – though not at the hands of Mamet, whose many original stage pl...
The Culture Buddies (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... Sunday afternoon, we caught Bill Pulman and Julia Stiles in an excellent product ion of David Mamet's play Oleanna . The ninety minute play portrays three encounters between university professor John and student Carol. We are taken along on the ride as we see exactly what happens in each interchange, but then start to question what we saw as John and Carol come to have two wildly...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... associated with the Rolling Stones. But he also has some Broadway experience. He was a producer of David Mamet's comedy "November" and his TGA Entertainment produced the hit Monty Python musical "Spamalot." In 2008, Cohl stepped down as the head of Live Nation, one of the world's largest concert promoters. The press release said "Spider-Man" is set to open in 2010 but did not specify...
FilmmakerIQ.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
by Gael Chandler “The humbling truth is that the film is made in the editing room.” -David Mamet introducing the nominations for editing during the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony Editors are often called the last re-writers of the show. Another way to put this is that the editor is the architect of the [...]
DISGRASIAN™ (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
First, sushi and Chinese herbs tried to poison Jeremy Piven , forcing the Entourage actor to drop out of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow last December. Then, the 44 year-old was photographed in Malibu with full-on man boobage this September, which he recently blamed on a 12 cups-a-day soy milk habit. Oh, Asian Foods. Why do you hate the Pivert so? Source Thanks, Gary!
The Playgoer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... is designing the sound for "Bye Bye Birdie" and other shows this season. Playwright David Mamet is known for refusing to use any mics at all in his plays. It may be a losing battle. At a recent performance of "Oleanna," his play about sexual harassment now on Broadway, an audience member complained at a "talk back" for theatergoers after the show. Dennis...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Any similarities between David Mamet's President Charles "Chucky" Smith and our previous commander in chief are in the mind of the beholder. Sure, in the West Coast premiere of Mamet's farce "November" at American Conservatory Theater, Smith behaves like a spoiled brat when he's not behaving like a clueless buffoon, but hey, who really knows what goes on in...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The list of living playwrights who can sell a straight play on Broadway without a big-name Hollywood star these days is very short, indeed. Alongside Tom Stoppard and David Mamet, we can tentatively pencil in Chicago playwright Tracy Letts of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. With 1993's violent and profane Killer Joe, Letts earned an early reputation as America's contributor to the in-yer-face...
IGN (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... popular characters, just look at Brian Bendis' career writing Marvel's team books. Sometimes, his David Mamet-esque approach to dialogue adds a lot of life to the team dynamic; other times his style comes off as a parody of itself. Kevin Smith's is shaping up to be an example of a stylistically unique writer getting that balance between individualism and reverence mostly right. Sure,...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... Shankman regulars), I have one suggestion for how this thing could maybe be entertaining: hire David Mamet to write the bulk of Martin and Baldwin's material. If you've seen The Spanish Prisoner and Glengarry Glen Ross you'll agree. Now let's see what the other film blogs are hoping for or dreading: Seth Abramovitch at Movieline : " Best Picture-Themed Balloon Animals Steve Martin...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... productions of , while Tom Sellar previews the Theater of the Eighth Day's .Plus Michael Musto on David Mamet's , , and more, . Name:Email:URL: Remember personal info? Comments (you may use HTML tags for style): Blogs Only GalleriesMost Twitter UpdatesUpdating...Voice Flickr Pool Receive e-mail updates Monthly Archives Category Archives Links Weekly Music Promotions Offstage Voice...
lgstarr (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Readers of Thomas Sowell's columns in IBD don't have to be told why he is considered one of America's greatest thinkers — maybe the greatest. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet has called him "our greatest contemporary philosopher," an opinion that British historian Paul Johnson shares in his book "A History of the American People." Besides his weekly...
