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The playwright accused podcast host Sam Fragoso of antisemitism following dialogue about Columbia's pro-Palestinian ...
Rebellions by enslaved soldiers occurred in several places—especially Egypt, Iraq and India—but not so in the Ottoman Empire.
When host Sam Fragoso pressed Mamet on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, led by supporters of the president, the ...
Playwright David Mamet has a question or two for the billionaires plotting to escape to compounds in New Zealand or some such ...
A new Blu-ray offers the chance to reconsider the Robert De Niro and Sean Penn vehicle, which met scorn in 1989 but holds up ...
Director David Mamet discusses how Democrats in Texas are facing major fines from Governor Greg Abbott on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ ...
David Mamet is blessed—and cursed—with an obsessively acute ear. In his plays, films and prose—including Three War Stories his just-published trilogy of novellas concerning the degrading and ...
David Mamet found himself in hot water after claiming that many male teachers are “inclined” to be pedophiles. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s hot take has prompted widespread ...
OK, here’s the deal, David Mamet is not a misogynist. “Instance me,” he challenges his Herbst Theatre audience in his put-up or shut-up Chicago tough-guy accent. And also, he does… ...
David Mamet sparked a furor with his recent threat to slap a $25,000 fine on any theater that holds post-performance discussions of his plays. It sounds extreme, but if you’ve ever seen a Mamet ...
The biggest surprise that comprises “Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet” is that “The Duck Variations,” with its focus on language in a seemingly early but already impressive stage of ...