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 ...

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 ...

The actor reprises his role (yes, the title one) from Mamet's play for a film adaptation, co-starring Shia LaBeouf. As he explains to IndieWire, the endeavor is both a "record" of the live stage ...

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 ...

Evan Jonigkeit stars as a man whose inability to grow a spine turns him into a sucker for a world filled with nefarious actors all too eager to use him. Adapted from his play of the same name, which ...

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 ...

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Talk is power in the world according to David Mamet. It always has been. Con men, salesmen, movie producers, all wielding the gift of gab as if it were a vivisection kit: These are his charming ...

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 ...

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 ...