Speed-The-Plow News

 
BWW Reviews: Vortex Theater Disappoints with David Mamet's SPEED-THE-PLOW.
Broadway World
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter, David Mamet (GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS; WAG THE DOG) takes a satirical look at the inner workings of the film industry in SPEED-THE-PLOW. Bobby Gould (played by Marc Comstock) has just been promoted to head of ...


 
Complicated comedy fails due to poor casting
UNM Daily Lobo
By Justino Brokaw | New Mexico Daily Lobo Though never completely boring, the Vortex Theatre's production of “Speed-the-Plow” is a disappointment, failing to reach the dizzying heights of comedic potential in David Mamet's outstanding script.


 
Weekly Alibi (blog)
The Vortex lines up David Mamet's soulless film industry farce
Weekly Alibi (blog)
By Christie Chisholm Speed-the-Plow is a play about the coke-addled, fortune-obsessed, power-crazed workings of late-'80s Hollywood, fortified with typical David Mamet misogynistic underpinnings. Also in true Mamet fashion, it's a story in which all of ...

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Tampabay.com
Review: David Mamet's play puts racial politics on trial
Tampabay.com
Race is not top-shelf Mamet — that would be American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, maybe Speed-the-Plow — but it's close enough to remind you what a dramatic powerhouse he can be. A final note: The Straz Center really should look into soundproofing ...


 
Casting Call for May 25, 2012
SouthtownStar
“OLEANNA”: Spotlight Theater will conduct auditions for this controversial drama by Flossmoor David Mamet, the provocative, Chicago-born Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and director (author of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Speed-the-Plow,” ...


 
New York Times (blog)
The Samurai Shopper | The Sweet Smell of Raúl Esparza
New York Times (blog)
In “Speed the Plow,” Esparza went with Red, a honking, hyper-masculine scent by Giorgio of Beverly Hills from the '80s. “It reminded me of a truck stop on the Florida turnpike,” he said. “It was so, so wrong. I smelled it and I was back in high school.

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STAGE TUBE: La Jolla's HANDS ON A HARDBODY- Audience Reacts
Broadway World
... Creditors), lyrics by Amanda Green (High Fidelity), music by Trey Anastasio (lead singer of the popular band Phish) and Amanda Green, with direction by Neil Pepe (Speed-the-Plow) and musical staging by Benjamin Millepied (BLACK SWAN).

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