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Listening to David Mamet teach dramatic writing is like hearing a raconteur spin tales and tell jokes with middle-class Chicago swagger and the...

I posted this on the LSF site and Facebook yesterday, but it’s so good, I decided to share it on my blog. It’s a memo written by David Mamet to the writing team on ‘The Unit’ and has been circulating…

Cate Blanchett to Star in David Mamet's Blackbird. Cate Blanchett will lead writer/director David Mamet's JFK conspiracy thriller Blackbird.

Not the play version, but the movie.... Sigh.

@nyphil David Mamet by Nigel Parry. Starring David Mamet's glasses.

Paul Peditto highlights The Screenwriter as Playwright, David Mamet and the difficulties for writers going from stage to screen.

David Mamet | Mark Seliger | GQ Men

Ten years ago, reading David Mamet’s book True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actorwas a revelation. Unlike so many of the method acting books I was reading at the time, Mamet laid out an incredibly simple view of how to be a good actor – just show up and say the words. A playwright-centric opinion of acting, to be sure, but a refreshing change to what seemed to be a long tradition of overthinking. Yesterday, I finally read David Mamet's missive on television writing that was…

Adapted by David Mamet from his 1984 Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Broadway hit, Glengarry Glen Ross is an ideal example of a wonderful play turned into a competently made film. Directed by James Foley, much more than on action the film puts emphasis on conversation, on lines written with so much passion, humor and understanding of

Pacino returns to the stage in Mamet’s new two-character play.