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Review: Gamm Theatre stages Glengarry Glen Ross

Leading men
As a playwright, David Mamet is tritely, inaccurately, and frequently accused of being a misogynist. But the evidence of his 1982 Glengarry Glen Ross indicates quite the opposite.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 08, 2010

Play by Play: May 21, 2010

Theater listings, May 21, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 19, 2010

Face the nation

SpeakEasy’s The Great American Trailer Park Musical; Zeitgeist’s Farragut North
White-trash collection has seldom been as hilarious as it is in The Great American Trailer Park Musical , which makes its Brahmin-area debut courtesy of SpeakEasy Stage Company.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 04, 2010

The con goes on

2nd Story’s The Voysey Inheritance
David Mamet has always had a professional fascination with confidence men who pretend to be businessmen.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 31, 2010

Play by Play: January 29, 2010

Theater listings, January 29, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 27, 2010

Play by play: January 22, 2010

Theater listings, January 22, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 20, 2010

Play by play: January 15, 2010

Theater listings, January 15, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 13, 2010

Diamonds in the rough

Gatz at the ART, Groundswell at the Lyric Stage
The setting is more boring '90s than Roaring '20s.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2010

Play by play: January 8, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule: January 8, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 06, 2010

Play by Play: January 1, 2010

Plays from A to Z
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 30, 2009

Play by play: December 25, 2009

Theater listings, December 25, 2009
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 23, 2009

Play by play: November 6, 2009

Boston theater listings, November 6, 2009
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 04, 2009

Play by play: October 30, 2009

Plays around town
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 28, 2009

Mars vs. Venus

Speed-the-Plow; The Taming of the Shrew; A Long and Winding Road
It’s been 21 years since Speed-the-Plow first milked the cravenness of Hollywood and the self-described “whores” who turn its celluloid tricks. But David Mamet’s scathing, staccato comedy has held up at least as well as Madonna, who made her Broadway debut in the original 1988 production.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 28, 2009

Play by play: October 23, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 21, 2009

Play by play: October 16, 2009

This week's theater listings
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 14, 2009

A Dark Night with Mamet and a Mad Horse

Mini-Reviews
Circling the central mystery of The Cryptogram are a camping trip, the provenance of a German pilot's knife, and a young boy's "sleep issues."
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 14, 2009

Play by play: October 9, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 07, 2009

Play by Play: October 2, 2009

Plays from A to Z
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 30, 2009

Plain talk

Jesse Sheidlower gives the f-word its due
Jesse Sheidlower, an editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary , an expert in slang, and the author of The F-Word , can't stop talking about fuck.
By JUSTINE ELIAS | September 15, 2009

Autumn garden

Fall on Boston boards
It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 14, 2009

Sins of the play

Israel Horovitz returns to Gloucester
The title of Israel Horovitz's Sins of the Mother (through September 13 at Gloucester Stage) is an ironic misnomer.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 02, 2009

Play by Play: June 26, 2009

Plays for A to Z
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 23, 2009

Play by Play: June 19, 2009

Plays from A to Z
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 16, 2009

Ducks and dicks

The ART revisits early Mamet
If the American Repertory Theatre is renewing its vows to David Mamet, several of whose plays it premiered in the 1990s, the double bill of The Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago will do nicely for something old and something blue.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 16, 2009