The first thing you need to know about “Race,” the new play by David Mamet currently running at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, is that it isn’t really about race. Well, not entirely about race. The setting is a conference
Isn’t it finally time for the behind-closed-door racial slurs to die? If our legislators truly do represent the people, then, how is it possible that in this nation, with so many people, of so many different ethnicities and races, an
Last night, David “I’m No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal” Mamet’s “Oleanna” opened on Broadway. The production (a transfer from Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum) stars Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles. As discussed on these pages Friday, this play was originally
“I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.” – David Mamet As I discussed in my very first post here at Big Hollywood, many in the theatre world were surprised to read
When a toolbag dies… How are you supposed to handle it? Are you supposed to honor them? Post-mortem, does a pedophile become the “greatest musician of all time”? Does a killer become an “American Icon”? Does death in itself wipe
Twenty-four year-old Susan La Muse has god-like powers. Actually, her powers surpass those of God since she can reconstitute dead people from scraps of debris and restore them to full health and cognizance. She waves her arms and AIDS disappears
If someone like Beethoven had a vision of the future and realized the impact his music had on humanity, would he be able to compose with the same fortitude and confidence, or rather, would the pressure of the realization of
The American Theatre world was rocked last year by playwright David Mamet’s confession in the “Village Voice” headlined: “Why I am no longer a ‘brain-dead liberal“. Some of us saw it coming. You need only recall Mamet’s 1992 masterpiece “Oleanna”