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David Mamet

'Noises Off' Opens and 'Glengarry' Previews at Denver Center (Playbill)

Playbill - It's a busy Friday for the Tony Award-honored Denver Center Theatre Company. On the same day, Oct. 10, Michael Frayn's Noises Off opens at The Stage Theatre and David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross begins previews at...

Watching Brief; Newman’s Own…

Lazy, lazy, lazy John. I sit in front of my computer screen, with all the best intentions and staring VERY hard indeed, meaning to post. Honest injun I do. But, well, stuff - ya know; 'stuff' - just gets in the way. How about a...

Does Mamet eat with that (expletive) mouth?

"Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1984, and in its 107 pages, the play contains 219 words that cannot be printed in this newspaper. But when profanity is used to portray life as it is, the effect can be...

DCPA cuts $1 million but shows unaffected

John Moore's column: The tanking economy has the Denver Center for the Performing Arts taking precautionary steps that will cumulatively cut $1 million in spending this fiscal year. We look at how the crisis has affected...

REGIONAL PREMIERE OF ?NOVEMBER? BY DAVID MAMET on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 at Avenue Theater

Days before a presidential election President Charles H.P. Smith is on the verge of losing his bid for a 2nd term his numbers are ?lower than Gandhi?s cholesterol?. He has no for TV ads or for Secret Service protection and he...

'Story So Far' surveys Stephen Sondheim's career

Trent Kowalik (left), Kiril Kulish and David Alvarez, share the lead role of Billy Elliot in the Broadway musical version of the film. Among the musical rarities: Sondheim singing Don't Laugh, a song he wrote with Mary Rodgers...

Leonardo DiCaprio: Half a boy and half a man

Boyish young face has made his transition to adult roles a real challenge How old do you think Leonardo DiCaprio is? But here’s the problem: Unless he’s shot, costumed and made up just so, the 33-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio...

Going legit: Why movie stars need live theater

BY CHRIS JONES Chicago Tribune NEW YORK -- Flushed and sweaty from his exertions, Daniel Radcliffe walked to the front of a Broadway stage and drank in the applause like an "American Idol" act on his first big gig. He grinned...

Hit & Run: Like mother, like daughter

Madonna is still top of the pops, and now daughter, Lourdes, 12, is riding high in the fashion charts. At last week's Madison Square Garden gig the singer pinched a look that her pre-teen trendy daughter had worn earlier this...

Waste

Variety delivers many ways to get your entertainment news. But before anyone accuses the playwright of shamelessly courting relevance, Harley Granville Barker's "Waste" actually dates from 1907. And if arguments about idealism...

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