Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A defining theme of the plays of David Mamet, from “American Buffalo” to “Edmund” to “Race,” is an individual’s search for a moral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright for half a century, and there are so many themes and obsessions and modes and rhythms ...

Chris Bauer and Dominic Hoffman also star in the writer-director’s lean screen adaptation of his four-character 2023 play. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic There’s no expository padding and no ...

Talk is power in the world according to David Mamet. It always has been. Con men, salesmen, movie producers, all wielding the gift of gab as if it were a vivisection kit: These are his charming ...

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Henry Johnson is a drama that follows the title character (Evan Jonigkeit) as he navigates his search for a moral center, after an act of compassion upends his life. Looking to authority figures he ...

Daniil Krimer (L) and Al’Jaleel McGhee in David Mamet's Henry Johnson, presented by Relentless Theatre Group and Victory Gardens Theater Credit: Michael Brosilow Many years ago, my late sister got a ...

David Mamet’s critical cachet has been in free-fall for more than a decade. If the playwright, screenwriter, and director’s trademark ultra-masculine protagonists and staccato dialogue have been ...

Exclusive: For his first film in over a decade, Mamet reunites the same cast who staged the original play in 2023, including LaBeouf, Evan Jonigkeit, Chris Bauer, and Dominic Hoffman. Per the film’s ...

David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright for half a century, and there are so many themes and obsessions and modes and rhythms and tics running through his work that it's easy to survey it all and ...

David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright for half a century, and there are so many themes and obsessions and modes and rhythms and tics running through his work that it’s easy to survey it all and ...