David Mamet

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"What We're Up Against" and "Collapse": Unlikely Comedies

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Magic Act

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

Mamet's new film, Redbelt, showing at the SF International Film Fest

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

Prim, Proper, Gay

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

Speed-the-Plow

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

Plowed Under

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

Pause & Rewind

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Encore

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Glengarry Glen Ross

Despite Actors Theatre's unremarkable set, David Mamet's script is foolproof

All in the Timing

These promising shorts show glimpses of what the Actors Ensemble can do

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Cryptogram

You'll need to be a code-buster to decipher the meaning of this Mamet play

The Water Engine

30-year-old David Mamet script could use an update from the playwright

Top Dog/Underdog

Slightly derivative, but brings moments of real poetry in the final act

Schmuck in the Muck

David Mamet leads William Macy into a sex-fueled hell

Our critics weigh in on local theater

David Mamet leads William Macy into a sex-fueled hell

Getting It On

Is Sexual Perversity still relevant?

Class Act

Falling in love again with Rubicon, still at the top of its game after a decade

The Voysey Inheritance

A 1905 play presciently engaged with the ethics of transgression and repayment

Failed Experiment

David Mamet's Dr. Faustus doesn't lack for talent, but the wooden performance of its main character kills any interest in the story

Dammit, Mamet!

Based on Spartan, the master of macho dialogue has lost his touch

"The Old Neighborhood"

Three short plays by David Mamet, in the usual dialogue rut

American Buffalo

A resurrection of one of David Mamet's best plays

Last Stand

Aurora's final show in a borrowed theater proves slight

Dublin Fields

Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe knows his Mamet -- and his Martin Amis

Highlands and Lowlands

It may feel set in a different era, but ACT's Glengarry Glen Ross still resonates, with fortunes that rise and fall like stock prices

Drowning in Water

Even the best actors can’t make wine out of these squishy Mamet scripts

Loser's Poker

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

Watered-Down Mamet

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Reel World

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Stage

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Stage

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

The Lying Game

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

A Screwed-Up Screw

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

The Albanian Candidate

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Night+Day

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Stage

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Speech Effects

The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness

Story Hour

Out There The Business

Night+Day

Out There The Business

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Out There The Business

Dunciad and Illeanad

Out There The Business