Posts Tagged ‘David Mamet’
Getting Down to Business with Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s Pitch-Perfect ‘American Buffalo’
San Diego’s Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company opened its production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” Saturday, November 16, at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a modest venue located in a not yet gentrified part of the city’s East Village that is the precisely the type of neighborhood in which Mamet’s play takes place.
Read MoreFalling in Love During World War II
For summer 2016, the San Diego theatre company, Different Stages, selected two comedies that incorporate humor and pathos. Earlier this season at Lamplighter’s Community Theatre, Jerry Pilato directed a friendship dramedy, The Dixie Swim Club.
Read MoreVantage Makes Itself at Home with Good ‘Rasheeda Speaking’
Race has been an issue in the social consciousness since almost before, like, God. Although there aren’t many ways left to articulate its cost, Vantage Theatre (fueled by the prospects for a new venue in La Jolla, its home) gives it a good shot with its current ‘Rasheeda Speaking.’
Read MoreJohn Logan Impersonates David Mamet in SD Rep’s Excellent ‘Red’
In terms of its intent, fine art is about as subjective an enterprise as you’ll find. Famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko will have none of that, and that’s one thing that makes San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Red’ so good.
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