David Mamet’s play, first produced in 1988 with Madonna playing the single feminine role, has lost none of its bite, its irreverence – to put it mildly – its male capitalist energy, and the power of its dialogue that shoots back and forth as though the actors were riddling each other with machine gun spray. …
David Mamet’s exceptional talent as a playwright, as a creator of film scenarios and producer of films, is fueled by a deep-seated anger against corruption in the US, inspired and even fascinated by all manner of falsehood such as we saw in the Hollywood drama Speed the plow– at the Gladstone Theatre in 2011 …
Poster from the production. Lawrence Aronovitch’s latest play has an extremely interesting content. It revolves around the meeting between three eminent women mathematicians/scientists, emerging from different periods of western history (400 BC, the 19th century and the early 20th century) who find themselves together in a global space/time, on the upper level of the set, …
Steve Martin as Chief of Staff Archer Brown. Photo by David Pasho This vicious satire of American politics by the author of Oleanna and Speed-the- Plow is one of the high points of the local English language season. It certainly came at the proper time, following as it did on the heels of Obama’s re-election …