An interview with Ricky Jay, whose show “A Rogue’s Gallery” runs through 12/6 at the Royal George Theatre Center.
Tag: David Mamet
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Now that’s what I call a lede
From Mark Singer’s engrossing 1993 profile of Ricky Jay: “The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher affirm that some years ago, late one night in the bar of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, this happened: Ricky Jay, who is perhaps the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive….”
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London calling
Vote now! Steppenwolf’s August: Osage County is on the online ballot for a British theater award.
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Mercury rising, Piven departing
Jeremy Piven drops out of Speed-the-Plow on Broadway.
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School’s in for the summer
The new summer session of Facets Film School begins tonight with a course on Luis Bunuel.
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He’s ba-a-a-aack!
Living without movies for a month: it’s not something you want to try at home.
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A Life in the Theatre
This funny, moving revival of David Mamet’s wry 1977 one-act perfectly captures the clipped rhythms, cryptic pauses, casual profanity, and semantic precision that are hallmarks of a writer for whom drama lies in character and language rather than action. Thematically, too, this is quintessential Mamet, charting the evolving relationship between an ambitious youngster and his […]