Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmed theater has its merits, the primary one being accessibility, but it seldom comes even close to matching the proximal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A defining theme of the plays of David Mamet, from “American Buffalo” to “Edmund” to “Race,” is an individual’s search for a moral ...

Henry Johnson is David Mamet’s first theatrical feature in 18 years. The Pulitzer-winning playwright-turned-filmmaker has since been an outspoken proponent of what he calls “the tragic view,” the idea ...

David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright for half a century, and there are so many themes and obsessions and modes and rhythms and tics running through his work that it’s easy to survey it all and ...

David Mamet’s critical cachet has been in free-fall for more than a decade. If the playwright, screenwriter, and director’s trademark ultra-masculine protagonists and staccato dialogue have been ...

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Daniil Krimer (L) and Al’Jaleel McGhee in David Mamet's Henry Johnson, presented by Relentless Theatre Group and Victory Gardens Theater Credit: Michael Brosilow Many years ago, my late sister got a ...

A defining theme of the plays of David Mamet, from “American Buffalo” to “Edmund” to “Race,” is an individual’s search for a moral center in a wholly transactional world. “Henry Johnson,” his ...

Chris Bauer and Dominic Hoffman also star in the writer-director’s lean screen adaptation of his four-character 2023 play. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic There’s no expository padding and no ...