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David Mamet

July 2024

  • Zosia Mamet.

    Zosia Mamet on Girls, acclaim and nepo babies: ‘It’s not like you’re born to a famous family and the red carpet rolls out for you’

    She got her big break on Lena Dunham’s hit show – and has since established a great and growing career. The actor and writer discusses Madame Web, introversion and her surprisingly personal essays

June 2024

  • Reese Witherspoon in Election; John Travolta in Primary Colors; Bobi Wine: The People's President.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films about elections

    From The Manchurian Candidate and Primary Colors to Uganda’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, the high-stakes drama of voting season lends itself to film-making

February 2024

  • ‘My old life died’ … Huffman, who is appearing in the play Hir.

    ‘It’s black and white. I did it’: Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on her comeback after jail

    As she hits the stage in an anarchic comedy about a family in freefall, the once-Oscar-nominated actor talks about her 2019 fraud conviction, why she’d never play a trans woman again – and being defended by David Mamet

December 2022

  • Arifa Akbar

    From Wagatha Christie to Donald Trump: can rapid-fire real-life drama upstage the news?

    Arifa Akbar
    Dramatising the latest watercooler story doesn’t guarantee you box-office success. The stiffest competition may come from reality’s own high drama

October 2022

  • Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross in front of the iconic "Always. Be. Closing." sign.

    Glengarry Glen Ross at 30: David Mamet’s still electric salesmen drama

    A cast of never-better actors, including Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin, give added life to the playwright’s punchy, Pulitzer prize-winning dialogue

April 2022

  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week
    Digested week: a downward spiral from Vogue to Brooklyn Beckham’s Instagram

    Emma Brockes
    Sharing in a celebrity couple’s joy, an elevator hitch, and why it’s time to stop quoting David Mamet
  • Sam Rockwell and Laurence Fishburne in American Buffalo.

    American Buffalo review – David Mamet returns to Broadway with a thud

    Circle on the Square Theatre, New YorkLaurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell bring star power to this umpteenth revival but there’s a staleness they struggle to overcome
  • Sarah Milton, writer and star of 4.

    ‘Still a work in progress’: what has #MeToo done for women in theatre?

    The Harvey Weinstein scandal was supposed to usher in a reckoning for the industry. But while some headway has been made, meaningful change has proved elusive

March 2022

  • How far sexual politics have progressed … Francesca Carpanini (as Ruth) and Sam Frenchum (as Nick) in The Woods.

    The Woods review – Mamet’s battle of the sexes is spiky but shows its age

    A couple bicker through the night in a remote cabin in a well-performed revival of David Mamet’s two-hander from 1977

February 2022

  • ‘People are walking around impossibly confused about what a man is and what a woman is’ … Mamet.

    ‘Trump did a great job as president’ – David Mamet on free speech, gender politics and rigged elections

    His liberal-baiting plays have caused punch-ups in the aisles and he hasn’t finished yet. As The Woods – his incendiary take on sexual politics – returns, the writer cuts loose

January 2022

  • Bill Bryden at the Playhouse theatre, London, in 2006.

    Bill Bryden: supremely gifted director who harnessed the ensemble’s power

  • David Suchet

    Beyond Poirot: David Suchet on stage – in pictures

July 2021

  • ‘He keeps jumping into her mouth’ … Jonathan Slinger as John and Rosie Sheehy as Carol in Oleanna, directed by Lucy Bailey.

    ‘We know that anger’: the return of David Mamet’s incendiary Oleanna

    What does Mamet’s 1992 play about a college professor accused of sexual harassment say in the wake of #MeToo? Lucy Bailey, director of its West End revival, discusses its power

March 2021

  • David Mamet

    Lockdown culture
    The Christopher Boy’s Communion review – Mamet's warped drama of motherhood and murder

    David Mamet’s new play, adapted as an audio drama, follows an indomitable Manhattanite willing to sacrifice everything to save her murderer son

December 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Death of England, The Outside Dog, Pass Over, Oleanna and Crave.

    Best culture 2020
    A dramatic year: the 10 best theatre shows of 2020

  • Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy in Oleanna by Mamet.

    Oleanna review – brutal and brilliant revival of pre-#MeToo masterpiece

August 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: John Malkovich in Bitter Wheat, Rose McGowan, Steven Berkoff in Harvey and Sexy Lamp.

    Theatre and #MeToo: 'There's a new anger in women's stories'

    The Weinstein scandal has inspired several new plays ranging from sharp satire to crass comedy. As the mogul heads to trial, we gauge theatre’s response

June 2019

  • Richard Brooks

    Can Hastings’s seafront gallery get it right second time around?

    Richard Brooks
    A new lease of life for art in Hastings, but a London clinic for injured dancers closes…
  • Miranda Sawyer

    The week in radio and podcasts: Culpable; Man in the Window; Paradise; Death in Ice Valley

    Miranda Sawyer
    True crime continues to be a mainstay of the podcast world
  • John Malkovich in Bitter Wheat

    The week in theatre: Bitter Wheat; Xanadu; Strange Fruit – review

    John Malkovich cannot save David Mamet’s lame post-Weinstein satire
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