David Mamet

The Sky Keeps Falling!

A short history of an art form's long passing

Today in hell freezes over

Perrier is now served in Hades, water is flowing uphill and clocks are running backwards.How else to explain the announcement yesterday that Dave Barton, Orange County's longtime theatrical agent provocateur (and OC Weekly arts writer) will program the 2013 season at Stages Theatre, OC's l ... More >>

What Do I Do to Shut Up My Mexican-Hating Mexicna Cousin?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do Mexicans have different words for dark skin?

The 12 OC Plays to Watch in 2012

Sexed-up puppets, Nixon and more!

The Answer to 'Resurrect Dead' Is Right Under Your Feet

Looking for the truth and protecting the mystery in 'Toynbee Tiles'

¡Ask a Mexican! to Debut as a Play in New York Next Week!

​SO...I've been sitting on this announcement for months, partly because I fully expected it to fall through, but here we are: next week is the world debut of ¡Ask a Mexican! in play form, in New York.Rejoice, racialists!But it's a much-bigger deal than me just doing my usual rant for alt-weekly r ... More >>

Joel Lee Craft Jr., Seller of Telemarketing Leads, Indicted in $25 Million Indie Movie Investment Scam

​David Mamet's independent movie (and play that preceded it) Glengarry Glen Ross is about slick salesmen using underhanded tactics to rope in would-be property investors culled from what is known as "lead lists."  The CEO of a San Clemente information company that sells such lists to telemark ... More >>

Revenge of the Space Pandas

Garage Theatre

'Steel Dragnolias': Crossover Hit?

STAGEStheatre's drag-queen cast treads the fine line between kitsch and camp

Can Female Leads Do Shit With 'Glengarry Glen Ross'?

STAGEStheatre's 'Larva Boy' Needs More Development Before Its Next Stage

Three to See While They're Still in OC

You like script-driven movies? Intelligent dialogue? Stuff that moves your brain as well as your emotions? As an antidote to the IQ-insult of Indiana Bones and Crap Happens in Vegas, three movies that won't be on the big screen much longer: Redbelt: It’s David Mamet, enough said. Not the best Ma ... More >>

Tae Kwon Do Comedy 'The Foot Fist Way' Stars a Truly Cringe-Tastic Danny McBride

Yes, Please

Sex AKA Weiners and Boobs

DVDish

Pause & Rewind: The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Playing Up the Season

Summer shows this critic would consider shelling out his own cash for . . . if he werent getting in for free already

36-Hour Party People

First-time filmmaker reinvents sci-fi, space and time

Things Change

In Spartan, Mamets off his game

A Snooze of a Time

This is not a Helen Mirren interview

Pass the bong, Shaggy

Theater notes

Con Artists and 10 Percenters

In Confidence and People I Know

Modesty Blaze

Philip Seymour Hoffman out of character

Anti-Myth

The Garage Theater Co.s Goose and Tomtom

The OCies Yeeeee-ha!

Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

Please Streamline

Patient: Heist

Still Waiting

Hold Please at SCR

Los Alamitos

Home of the meat pie

Waiting for the End

Death Defying Acts is terminal

Bulls and Buffalos

Mamet on naked greed

Damn Dirty Remakes

Summer flicks 2001

Wind Power

Talky but energetic

Guess Whos Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Perversity Rocks, Stitches Tanks

Not so Perverse

Howard Korders Truly Terrifying Tales of America

Meet the Great Ricky Jay

Or, rather, don't meet him