We Have an Issue: Why Austin?

Scratching our heads over the University of Austin, and celebrating the spirit of creativity and curiousity already alive in our city

"...group – which includes Bari Weiss, Andrew Sullivan, and David Mamet – settled on Austin to host their experiment..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Full Arthur Miller Archive Lands at UT

Ransom Center acquires complete papers by The Crucible author

"...prominent 20th-century dramatists, including George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, David Hare,..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Getting Schooled by Film’s Heavy Hitters

John Pierson’s Master Class airs tonight on KUT

"...Linson shares recollections of his collaborations with David Mamet, Brian De Palma, Sean Penn, and David Fincher..."

Aug. 21, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

In with old, in with the new

"...Dennis Haysbert may have lost his job as President David Palmer on 24, but he returns to life in..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Production companies are mad at work shooting sitcoms and dramas for consideration on the fall TV slate

"...a drama about a brain surgeon. And former President David Palmer (aka Dennis Haysbert) may return to TV, this..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...needs, passions, dark places. This, for example, is something David Mamet does not do; he writes brilliantly for men,..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Exhibitionism

Salome: Under the Veils, No Heart

"...by One Theatre Company. Reminiscent of other men-behaving-badly classics (David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, David Rabe's Hurlyburly), Boys'..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Review

Articulations

A Hand for Jess

"...Next up for Bloom is a pairing of two David Mamet plays, The Cryptogram and The Old Neighborhood in..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Six-String Reverb

In the Beginning ...

"...like Tsui Hark and John Woo, he also loved David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, but on his severely constrained..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rockin' Scriptmas!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All the Plays

"...other kind of writing by the playwright. You know, David Mamet loves penning essays, and he has a new..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 29 - October 5

"...Tomei, rock star Courtney Love, filmmaker Miranda July, playwright David Mamet, actor William Macy, philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, rock..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Joe Lynch Is Bringing Sexy Back With Suitable Flesh

Fantastic Fest veteran gets carnal and cosmic in this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation

"...an underground theatre director, mounting the first production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago and was once arrested..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Eight Unconventional Romantic Comedies You Can Stream Right Now

Not-so-cookie-cutter love stories willing to get a little weird

"...update of 1986’s About Last Night, itself adapted from David Mamet’s 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. There’s a..."

March 15, 2020 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Jarrott Productions' The Niceties

In this staging of Eleanor Burgess' drama, the frictions of American society catch fire in an academic's office

"...hardly seem a setting for combustible conflict. But as David Mamet's Oleanna instructed us a quarter of a century..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Theatre en Bloc's Dance Nation

This production of Clare Barron's play invokes the experience of puberty for girls, in all its allure and terror

"...mouth every "motherfucker" with a fury that would send David Mamet's alpha males whimpering away – Katy Atkinson's Ashlee,..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Review: Thoroughbreds

Parlor games turn bloody in dark comedy

"...the intricate dance of dialogue. There's a hint of David Mamet in his use of strictly defined silences, and..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The X Files' Mitch Pileggi at Zach Theatre

What conspiracy brought X-Files star Mitch Pileggi back to Austin, Zach, and Walter Skinner all at the same time?

"...thespians can turn into F-bomb-dropping, raging refugees from a David Mamet play, this was, unquestionably, where Pileggi wanted to..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Comedy Out the Wazoo and In Your Weekend: Now!

Unless you'd rather just, what, twiddle your thumbs until Moontower?

"...genres. Plays made up on-the-spot in the style of David Mamet, of Samuel Beckett? Tangents of derring-do spun from..."

April 9, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Circle the Wagons

Exchange Artists' series of five-minute plays performed in and near cars boasts a lively party atmosphere

"...close quarters. While the work of Eric Bogosian or David Mamet is arresting and may germinate in your mind..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Gidion's Knot

Top-notch acting powers this claustrophobic confrontation between a dead boy's grieving mother and his teacher

"...one room – it's as claustrophobic and prickly as David Mamet's Oleanna. When a fifth-grade boy's suicide note reads..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Stacy Alexander Evans

The Talented Mr. Isaac

Scenes from an interview with the star of the Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

"...David Mamet, paraphrasing Stanislavski, wrote something similar. Some performances may..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Jeff Winkler

Peter Stopschinski

"...with the only thing missing being raw snippets of David Mamet dialogue. "Mr. Jefferson" conjures up the sensation of..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Review by Greg Beets

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

Partly because her movie's in the Seattle International Film Festival

"...Theatre Company’s acting school that William H. Macy and David Mamet started, and it was great...."

May 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...According to playwright David Mamet, depression is impossible when one is faced with..."

July 13, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The 43 Hour Improv Marathon

Comedy worth losing sleep over

"...mysteries to Charles Dickens novels, Star Trek to Baywatch, David Mamet to Tennessee Williams performed by robots! The full..."

June 1, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vanya on 42nd Street

This 1994 film captures an alchemical moment of New York theatre lore, a prolonged experiment in Chekhov

"...the still so modern-minded Chekhov (the adaptation is by David Mamet). Filmed in medium shots and close-ups, the action..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Return of the Herd of Harpsichords

This La Follia concert was to the harpsichord what a fine wine tasting is to vino

"...was as cutthroat as any you'd find in a David Mamet play?) But the performances offered plenty of their..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011

Remembering a theatrical year with superheroes, The Tempest, and a mash-up of the two

"...3) CONFIDENCE MEN: IMPROVISED DAVID MAMET (Out of Bounds Comedy Festival) Holy Bard of..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Who Says Igor Kenk Stole Your Bike?

Hell, you don't even live in Canada

"...shit. This is some good shit, and people like David Mamet or Richard Price would have to labor intensely..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

All Over Creation: Element of Surprise

The joys and importance of 'I didn't see that coming'

"...to then, the Super Friends – or rather, their David Mamet-ized counterparts from some multiverse Earth-Testosterone – had been..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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