If you don’t see Mamet’s direct influence on roughly two-thirds of top-quality scripts today that’s because it’s easy to not notice how ... When 1997’s The Edge, script by David Mamet, ...

News about David Mamet, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... But their influence is still being felt.

Playwright, author, and screenwriter David Mamet and Bill Maher debate the basis of January 6, 2021, on the "Club Random" podcast. BILL MAHER: The comedy club had a team.

After a 17-year absence behind the camera, David Mamet adapts his 2023 play Henry Johnson for the silver screen. And his signature power dynamics, moral corruption, and raging machismo are evident ...

Like the 1994 film Oleanna, Henry Johnson adapts one of Mamet’s own plays, in this case a three-act prison drama of the same name. The title character, played here by the director’s son-in-law ...