David Mamet
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"A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry--probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed...
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Exposing how oppressive cultural codes-encapsulated in buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation-are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world's freest country, a renowned author and playwright examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the U.S. throughout history.
3) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
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"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike...
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Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action — where
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For the past thirty years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. His characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart. He realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably...
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"¿Qué hace que una obra dramática sea buena? ¿Cómo se relaciona una obra dramática con la vida cotidiana? Para David Mamet, uno de los ideólogos contemporáneos más carismáticos y comprometidos con la creación artística, el teatro con mayúsculas satisface la necesidad humana de ordenar el mundo. Una buena obra dramática lleva al protagonista a invocar frente al público, en el escenario y a través de propio personaje, la fuerza para...
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Three one-act plays from David Mamet, one of the master stage writers of our time:
The Shawl - A clairvoyant is in the process of swindling an unsuspecting woman on the basis of clever guess work and speculation. But it appears the clairvoyant has special powers that even he may not be aware of.
Reunion - After years of separation, Reunion follows the painful and deliberate efforts of a divorced and recovering alcoholic father, Bernie, and his daughter...
10) Romance
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David Mamet and L.A. Theatre Works present the sardonic tale of pill-popping judge presiding over an anti-Semitic attorney and his Jewish client, a chiropractor trying to bring about world peace.
11) State & Main
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When a big-budget Hollywood movie crew arrives in a quaint Vermont village--sowing a bumper crop of corruption, vanity and greed--money will change hands, careers will be jeopardized and love will bloom before the first cameras roll. A producer losing money by the day ... a first-time screenwriter trying vainly to maintain his integrity ... a leading lady who does not want to appear nude ... a star with a dangerous predilection for underage girls--in...
12) Uncle Vanya
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In this classic of Chekhov's canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth. But Vanya is enchanted by the professor's new wife, while Sonya has fallen for the town's melancholy doctor.
Includes a conversation with Rosamund Bartlett, author of "Chekhov: Scenes from a Life."
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:...
13) Twelve angry men
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"A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not...
