David Mamet

I Dared Yasiel Puig to Hit a Grand Slam; Now I Owe Him my Car

A baseball blogger's Twitter feed is no place for objectivity. If not by definition than by tradition, a baseball blogger -- and Dodger bloggers have been at this the longest -- roots for his team. He may rip them a new one when the situation calls for it, but his love is blue always. And so last n ... More >>

Geffen Playhouse Revives David Mamet's Classic American Buffalo

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

10 Political Things to Do in L.A. Before (and After) the Election

This year's election has the public voting for everyone from Roseanne Barr to Hello Kitty, with Mitt Romney's Binders of Women the projected costume-winner for Halloween. While the 2012 presidential election is the biggest reason people are hitting the polls, we all know that local campaigns can be ... More >>

Krapp's Last Tape and Blue/Orange, Reviewed

November Review: David Mamet Skewers the Presidency at the Mark Taper Forum

November

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

A Santa Monica Trailer Park — and Its Senior Residents — Face Off With Fancy New Development

David Mamet Thinks Phil Spector Was Railroaded

Railroaded?​Playwright David Mamet has been on a press tour lately to discuss his recent conversion to Palin-loving conservatism. Clearly in a provocative mood, he also went to bat for bewigged murderer Phil Spector:"I don't think he's guilty. I definitely think there is reasonable doubt," Mamet s ... More >>

Tricky Ricky

Stage Raw: Gertrude, Alice, and David Mamet

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Edward Antony's Wish I Had a Sylvia PlathL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEES                          &n ... More >>

Lemon Durang Pie

Time Travelers

John Steppling's Phantom Luck

WHO NEEDS ELLIOT STABLER WHEN YOU'VE GOT ELIOT NESS?

Movie Reviews: Crazy on the Outside, 44 Inch Chest, The Spy Next Door

Also, Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis

Movie Reviews: Crazy On the Outside, Daybreakers, Leap Year

Also, Bitch Slap, Youth in Revolt and more

RICKY DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER

Theater Reviews: Liquid, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The New Testament/Helter Skelter

Also, This Is My F-Ing Wedding, Influences of the Spirit and more

Stage Raw: Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the latest NEW REVIEWS and the current STAGE FEATURE on Adeline's Play at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa MonicaNEW REVIEW PICK ANITA BRYANT DIED FOR YOUR SINS ​Photo by Ty DonaldsonThe title of Brian Christopher Williams play suggests a slick, sassy gay com ... More >>

Performance Pick: Fast Road to Nowhere

Two Headed Dog's City on the Edge

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

The Voysey Inheritance

Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

False Witnesses in Oleanna and The Crucible

Bitch hunts of the American theater

Stage Raw: Labor Theater

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see this THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's sci-fi opera, La Didone coming to REDCATIN CASE YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING AT THE BACK OF THE CLASSThe Tony Awards are th ... More >>

Stage Raw: Harassment

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see last week's THEATER FEATURE on Elephant Man at Andak Stage CompanyOLEANNA David Mamet's Oleanna opens to the press on Friday night at the Taper. This is not the theater's first at ... More >>

Broadway Crowd Pleasers: August: Osage County, Gypsy, November, Top Girls

Great White Way getaways

Keep Your Pantheon/The Duck Variations

Theater Reviews: Hot and Ready, Tooth and Nail

Also: The Nothing Boys, Keep Your Pantheon, and more

Movie Reviews: Redbelt, A Walk Into the Sea, Swimming in Auschwitz

Plus other releases opening May 2

Theater Reviews: Bunny Bunny, Eenie Meanie, Little Fish

Also Mustang Sally, Glengarry Glen Ross and more

Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match.

The Iceman cometh

Great World of Sound: The Music Men

For these record producers, exploiting the American dream is all in a day’s work

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Edmond

Let's Not Get Everyone Killed

David Mamet’s American soldiers

Gibson Girls Gone Wild

David Mamet’s tales of the unfair sex

New Theater Reviews

Mock Court

The injudicious farce of David Mamet

Things Change

Spartan, Mamet’s off his game

Cain Is Not Abel

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog at the Taper

Signifying Nothing

The sound and fury of David Mamet

The New Math

Indie film goes prime time

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Bleak Houses

David Mamet gets in the family