From February 23rd to March 10th, A Chick and A Dude's production of the David Mamet play "Glengarry Glen Ross" ran at the Hyde Park Theater, which we reviewed here and posted on the 7th. At a later performance, however, the drama on stage was briefly overshadowed by drama on/off stage, when one of the actors felt so distracted by some drunk in the audience that with a bellowing "WHAT?!" the offending gentleman was made an example of and escorted out of the audience with shouts of "Go fuck yourself, get out of here!" Unsurprisingly, the expletives fly easy at a Mamet performance. Our only wish: at one point the play-interrupter says "Who are you?" to a guy in the audience. If he had only said, "What's your name?" more ›

Playwright and filmmaker David Mamet will appear at UT's Hogg Auditorium on Monday, February 4th for a discussion of his work with the Austin Chronicle's Robert Faires. The event is the first of several appearances by Mamet at UT in conjunction with the acquisition of his archives by the Harry Ransom Center. more ›

The Harry Ransom Center at UT is announcing today that they have acquired the archives of American playwright David Mamet. These archives include journals, manuscripts and drafts of each of the acclaimed writer's plays and screenplays. David Mamet, writer of such works as "Glengarry Glen Ross", The Untouchables, and Wag the Dog, will also come to UT for a series of short residencies over the next four years. In a letter to the Ransom Center... more ›