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David Mamet On Return To Cinema With Self-Distributed ‘Henry Johnson’, State Of The Industry & J.K. Rowling-Inspired Play He’s Writing For Rebecca Pidgeon – Crew Call Podcast
We kick off the 2025 summer season of Crew Call with a very candid wide-ranging conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and 2x Oscar nominated scribe, David Mamet.
We kick off the 2025 summer season of Crew Call with a very candid wide-ranging conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and 2x Oscar nominated scribe, David Mamet. The pic, which is self-distributed and available to rent digitally, follows the title character (played by Mamet’s son-in-law Evan Jonigkeit), who after helping a friend out, becomes collateral damage and complicit in his sex crime affairs. We also chat about the buzzed-about female stage version of Glengarry Glen Ross ( “We did a reading a few years ago, Rebecca Pidgeon played Ricky Roma, and Felicity Huffman played Shelley Levene); his Harvey Weinstein inspired play Bitter Wheat and why it never made it to Broadway (“Broadway has become very, very problematical, and it was the height of the woke insanity and the thought of doing a comedy about guy who was a libertine, as if Moliere never existed, was thought not quite the thing), and what he really thinks of the now incarcerated mogul.
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