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2 days ago · By SHARON EBERSON Brace yourself for Oleanna. The David Mamet drama is not a pleasant diversion on a hot summer’s day, nor is it meant to be. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and provocateur aims to challenge beliefs we may hold to be self-evident, often on the most infuriating, offensive terms – his terms. The current Kinetic…
2 days ago · July 14, 2024July 14, 2024 by VivantAdmin. He Said, She Said – a review of “Oleanna”. by Lonnie the Theatre Lady. Many say the playwright, David Mamet, wrote the controversial “Oleanna” in 1992, shortly after. and as a response to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings. It’s a foreshadowing of the #MeToo movement that came into ...
4 days ago · The big picture: It was 40 years ago that the dark romantic comedy based on a David Mamet play showcased young Brat Packers Demi Moore and Rob Lowe. The movie: "About Last Night." Flashback: The film, which also starred Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins, debuted in 1986 but was shot all over town in 1985. Fun fact: The script was adapted from ...
4 days ago · David Mamet is an iconic figure in the world of drama, celebrated for his mastery in playwriting, screenwriting, and film direction. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet’s career took off in the early 1970s with a series of successful off-Broadway plays.
3 days ago · American playwright David Mamet’s rich, rhythmic dialogue wasn’t just tailormade for the stage, it was perfect for the big screen too. He wrote the screenplays for the 1981 film version of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice , 1987’s The Untouchables , 2001’s Hannibal , and received Academy Award nominations for the screenplays for ...
4 days ago · I’m also a gadfly in my early 20s, footloose and fancy-free, on Lincoln Avenue, the hub of Chicago’s up-and-coming 1970s theater scene that features Stuart Gordon’s “Organic Theatre”, early home to David Mamet’s new plays, and seedbed to future Hollywood and Broadway stars Joe Montegna, Dennis Franz, William H. Macy, Andre De ...
3 days ago · One guest who organizers might have wished had sent a video message was Luca Barbareschi, the actor, director and producer of the David Mamet-scripted “The Penitent.”
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