American Buffalo

Play by David Mamet

American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions it opened on Broadway in 1977. Critic Frank Rich, in reviewing the 1983 production for The New York Times, called it "one of the best American plays of the last decade." Rich had previously reviewed the 1981 Off-Broadway production, calling the play "brilliant", and noting: "The play, though, is the thing. Working with the tiniest imaginable vocabulary - words like nothing, great, and no, as well as those of four letters - Mr. Mamet creates a subterranean world with its own nonliterate comic beat, life-and death struggles, pathos and even affection... In American Buffalo, he has created a deceptively small-scale tragedy that is packed with the power to explode the largest of American myths."

American Buffalo

Circle in the Square Theatre Broadway

First Preview 24, Mar 2020

Opening Night 14, Apr 2020

Closing Night 12, Jul 2020

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Cast

Darren Criss - Bobby

Laurence J Fishburne III - Donny

Sam Rockwell - Teach

Creative

Produced by Jeffrey Richards
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Neil Pepe

Circle in the Square Theatre

The original Circle in the Square was founded by Theodore Mann, José Quintero, Jason Wingreen, Aileen Cramer and Emily Stevens in 1951 and was located at 5 Sheridan Square (a former nightclub) in Greenwich Village. The Gershwin and Circle in the Square were built in 1970 when the Uris Brothers tore down the Capitol Theatre to build the tower (with the Gershwin originally being called the Uris Theatre).It originally served as the uptown home to the Circle-in-the-Square repertory company. Their first production on Broadway, a revival of Mourning Becomes Electra, opened on November 15, 1972.The theatre is below street level. It is one of only two Broadway houses with a thrust stage (the other is Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater).

American Buffalo

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