David Mamet

IF YOU GO What: ÒThe ShawlÓ by David Mamet When: 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday Where: Fischer Black Box at Las Vegas Little Theatre, 3920 Schiff Drive Admission: $11-$12; 362-7996, lvlt.org Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission Audience advisory: Seating is very close to the performers ÒThe Shawl,Ó a seldom-performed three-hander by David Mamet, culminates in a seance. Which, if you think about it, is one way of describing what theater is — a group of people gathered in a darkened room to bring disembodied voices, ancient or modern, to life. Las Vegas Little Theatre has dusted off this seldom-performed 1985 short play in four acts, ... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playwright David Mamet, whose works often revolve around cutthroat men who use bruising dialogue, will write a screenplay about Holocaust victim Anne Frank, the Walt Disney Co said on Wednesday. The film will be based on Frank's famous diary, a 1950s U.S. play about Frank by writers Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, and Mamet's own take on the material, Disney officials said. No date has been set for the film's production or release. Anne Frank died at age 15 in a German concentration camp during World War Two. Her story became internationally known with the publication of her journal, which ... Read Full Story

For better or for worse, David Mamet is the most important American playwright of the past 30 years. He's the only playwright who, at this point in time, can draw a national audience to the stage. By that I mean he can be talked about on Entertainment Tonight in a purely theatrical context. That's the audience the producers of the Broadway premiere of Oleanna are catering to in a deeply cynical, almost reprehensible revival. This >Oleanna seems less an attempt to expose one of the most important plays of the last quarter century to a Broadway audience, and more like a production meant to ... Read Full Story

"Theoretically, perfectly, what one wants to do is put the protagonist and the audience in exactly the same position. The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, What does the protagonist want? That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. What gives rise to the drama, what is the precipitating event, and how, at the end of the play, do we see that event culminated? Do we see the protagonists wish fulfilled or absolutely frustrated? That's the structure of drama. You break ... Read Full Story

guardian.co.uk David Mamet remaking 'The Diary of Anne Frank' Los Angeles Times Pulitzer-winning playwright David Mamet ("Glengarry Glen Ross") is scripting and directing a big-screen version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" for Disney. The true story of a young girl and her family hiding from the Nazis was first adapted as a stage ... Playwright David Mamet to pen Anne Frank film Reuters 'The Diary of Anne Frank' to return to the big screen New York Daily News The Story of Anne Frank Will Return to the Big Screen TheCelebrityCafe.com United Press International  - The Week Magazine  - New York Magazine all 90 ... Read Full Story