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David Mamet Review
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2005
Review: Romance at the Atlantic Theater David Mamet Society Presentations on audio from the MLA December, 2005.
2004
Reviews of Mamet's new play, Faustus, as well as the Prague Premiere of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and productions of Speed-the-Plow in Baltimore and Squirrels in New Orleans. Two new books are reviewed, The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet and The Art of Crime: The Plays and Films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. In addition, there is an overview of the Mamet in London conference and the annual bibliography.
2003
Play Reviews: Boston Marriage debut in New York and Chicago; American Buffalo, ACT San Francisco. Book Review: Five Cities of Refuge and David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook. Program for David Mamet Conference, London, June, 2004, Dissertation listing, New President's Message and the Annual Bibliography.
2002
Reviews of Glengarry Glen Ross at the Lyric in Boston and Oleanna in St. Louis, Las Vegas, and Washington D.C.'s Source Theater, and Mamet's direction of Ricky Jay's On the Stem, and the Mamet film Heist. Anne Dean examines House of Games at The Royal College of Psychiatry. Book Review: South of the Northeast Kingdom, the President's address, new and forthcoming works, and the annual bibliography.
2001
Reviews of Boston Marriage in London’s Donmar Warehouse and Glengarry Glen Ross ACT San Francisco, and Mamet and Ricky Jay at Town Hall. Leslie Kane surveys the year's work in Mamet studies and looks ahead. President Janet Haedicke bids the Mamet Society farewell. Review of Mamet’s film of State and Main, the film of Lakeboat , and the film of Hannibal
2000
Reviews of Atlantic Theatre Mamet Season, American Buffalo Chicago directed by Mike Nussbaum, London productions of American Buffalo (Macy at Donmar Warehouse) and Speed-the-Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre) Death Defying Acts: An Interview and Actors' Guild of Lexington, Kentucky Death Defying Acts. Book Reviews: Weasels and Wisemen by Kane and Mamet's Wilson and Mamet’s Henrietta President's Message Leslie Kane prepares to step down. New and Forthcoming, and Annual Bibliography 1999-2000.
1999
President Kane's Message, New and Forthcoming, Bibliography. Performance Reviews: Boston Marriage (ART Cambridge), The Cryptogram and The Old Neighborhood (Geffen Playhouse) and UK Productions in 1999, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Theatre de Nesle. Paris, and The Frog Prince, 78th Street Theatre Lab (NY). Book Reviews: The Chinaman, Jafsie and John Henry. Film Reviews: The Winslow Boy. “Crime into Art.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 1998.
1997
President Kane's Message, New and Forthcoming, Bibliography. Performance Reviews: The Old Neighborhood (Cambridge, Mass), Edmond (Atlantic Theatre), Speed-the-Plow (Los Angeles), Speed-the-Plow in Manchester, The Woods in New York, American Buffalo, The Young Vic in London, Oleanna at Missouri Rep. Book Reviews: Make-Believe Town, Duck and Goat and Passover, and Ilkka Joki's Mamet, Bakhtin, and the Dramatic, and Anglo American Interplay by Ruby Cohn — Film Reviews: The Edge.
1998
President Kane's Message, New and Forthcoming, Bibliography. Performance Reviews: The Old Neighborhood and Lakeboat (London), A Life in the Theater (Santa Barbara), A Life in the Theater (Minneapolis), Speed-the-Plow (Hattiesburg, MS), Mamet Live Interviews: Barbican Centre and Duke of York's, London. Book Reviews: Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, The Old Religion, True and False. Film Reviews: Ronin, Wag the Dog, The Spanish Prisoner.