Mamet sans teeth: Mamet’s ‘A Life in the Theatre’ on Broadway
David Mamet’s play about an older actor and his protégé-rival is full of snippets and in-jokes celebrating life on the stage but bereft of Mamet’s signature ferocity and danger.
David Mamet’s play about an older actor and his protégé-rival is full of snippets and in-jokes celebrating life on the stage but bereft of Mamet’s signature ferocity and danger.
La Bête is a wild Molière parody/homage, nearly two hours of rhyming couplets delivered at breakneck speed. The effect is jawdroppingly amazing— and very, very funny.
Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters, a play about English miners who learn to paint, contains enough ideas—political and aesthetic—and enough charm to please any crowd, although…
A Lower East Side hallway set in the past, present and future is the site of three plays by the allegedly daring Adam Rapp. The net result is five hours of sloppy, empty playwriting and schl…