It was with sadness that I climbed the stairs one last time for the final show by Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., which is closing up shop next month after 30 years as an offbeat but integral part…
It was with sadness that I climbed the stairs one last time for the final show by Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., which is closing up shop next month after 30 years as an offbeat but integral part…
RECOMMENDED A junk shop: an assemblage of bric-a-brac, objects not all broken but beyond their first use"typewriters, two-headed ceramic aliens and toasters as well as other kitsch and fixer…
The Chicago production had been denied the right to invite critics due to a standard practice.
The review restrictions placed on the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company's production of American Buffalo by publishing company Samuel French, have been lifted thanks to an anonymous call …
David Mamet's "American Buffalo" was the in-your-face drama that inspired Rich Cotovsky to get into the theater business. So when Cotovsky's Mary-Arrchie Theatre was making plans for its las…
Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. closes its 30th and final season with David Mamet's gripping and often hilarious drama AMERICAN BUFFALO, directed by Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, pl…
A hit with critics and public alike, Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge star in the major new revival of David Mamet's gripping 1975 play American Buffalo which must end today, 27 …
A hit with critics and public alike, Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge star in the major new revival of David Mamet’s gripping 1975 play American Buffalo at Wyndham's Th…
Broadway's unofficial David Mamet festival and revival smack-down continued last night with an enjoyable if not revelatory "American Buffalo."
John Leguizamo's dynamic physicality makes for an eminently watchable Teach. Cedric the Entertainer is a credible Don. However, this revival could use more Mametian snap, crackle and pop.
So cunningly cast are the actors, and so adept are they at wringing a touching story of redemption from these men in their own personal economic crisis (which mirrors the current one facing …
Robert Falls' production drains much of the humor, urgency and anxiety from the piece, letting it amble along like an inflated actors' exercise in sustaining atmosphere without action.
There are plenty of laughs at the excessively foul language and the gang's goof-ups, but how much richer this "American Buffalo" would have been had two-thirds of the cast concentrated on co…
The four-letter words are intact but just about everything else is amiss in the slack, unsatisfying Broadway revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo."
You know that you're watching a David Mamet play when the pre-show announcement instructs you to "turn off your f***ing cell phones."
In this production, Teach is played by Tracy Letts, actor-turned-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (August: Osage County; Bug; Killer Joe) turned actor again. He is the best Teach I've ever seen. Actually, this is the best American Buffalo I've ever seen.
These characters may not be able to commit the perfect crime, but these actors - with the help of Morton and Mamet - do provide close to a perfect evening of theater.