David Mamet

Features

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

By Bill Gibron

In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season. [28 April 2008]

Reviews

Homicide: The Criterion Collection

By Chris Barsanti

In Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles in just about every character’s mind [12 October 2009]

Redbelt

By Cynthia Fuchs

In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue. [9 May 2008]

House of Games

By Matt Mazur

In the section of town where rotten tenements boast rusty, decrepit fire escapes that rattle in the dank breeze she seems out of place, but somehow not out of her element. [31 August 2007]

Spartan (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

David Mamet extends his famous preoccupation with masculine preoccupations into the murky workings of the U.S. government. [11 March 2004]

Heist (2001)

By WRITER

[David Mamet's] language, severe and spare, actually sounds quite human comin [8 November 2001]