Offers three essays on the connection of art to life, language to power, and public spectacle to private script (view table of contents)

Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

Three crooks in a junk shop plot to steal a coin collection in this award-winning drama by an acclaimed new American playwright

Product Description: Drama / Characters: 3 maleScenery: InteriorBest American Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award during the 1976-77 season, this volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most recently on Broadway with John Leguizamo in 2008...read more

Three crooks in a junk shop plot to steal a coin collection in this award-winning drama by an acclaimed new American playwright

Product Description: "The finest American author of his generation."—Sunday MailNothing is quite what it seems in David Mamet's latest work. With a nod to his mentor, Harold Pinter, Mamet once again employs his signature verbal jousting in this battle of two women over freedom, power, money, religion—and the lack thereof...read more

Playwright and screenwriter Mamet gives us a subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a filmmaker who has always played the game his own way. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Whose opinion matters when revising a screenplay? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what do those producers do, anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and bracingly forthright answers to these and other questions about virtually every aspect of filmmaking, from concept to script to screen. He covers topics ranging from 'How Scripts Got So Bad' to the oxymoron of 'Manners in Hollywood.' He takes us step-by-step through some of his favorite movie stunts and directorial tricks, and demonstrates that it is craft and crew, not stars and producers, that make great films.--From publisher description.A subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry describes every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from 'How Scripts Got So Bad' to 'Manners in Hollywood.'

An old man uses an antique watch to teach a young boy facing his first Bar Mitzvah about man and God, about the Holocaust, and about the richness and responsibility of being a Jew, in a wonderful illustrated gift book. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society...read more

Product Description: In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather terrorize his sister; New York City, where as a young man he had to eat his way through a mountain of fried matzoh to earn a night of sexual bliss...read more

Product Description: "The finest American author of his generation."—Sunday MailThis complex new work from celebrated playwright David Mamet revolves around a wealthy man, his young fiancée, and an airplane. The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl...read more

A new collection of poetry from the distinguished playwright and director presents forty energetic poems, including both original and previously published works that have appeared in The New Yorker and other noted publications. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: David Mamet A collection of short dramatic pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre and other classics are exceptional scene and monologue pieces as well as entertaining reading...read more

Product Description: In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing—the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers...read more

(view table of contents)

Uses rhymes and rhythm to tell the story of an angora goat and a muscovy duck who set out for work aboard a fire truck, but as luck would have it, the press of traffic and losing their way makes them late for work.

A fortune-teller's teasing rumination sends Edmond lurching into New York City's hellish underworld, his whole life abandoned in a searing quest for self-discovery and redemption.

Product Description: A modern retelling of the classic tale of pride, folly and the ultimate wager 'I covet fame ...Yes, I would have fame. For my works, and fame surpassing them, till Faustus's renown shines free of accomplishment.' Faustus has it all - fame, success, a loving family...read more

The father of a young son, a philosopher who has spent his life seeking to uncover the inner workings and meaning of the universe encounters a mysterious magus who challenges him to choose between the pride of intellect and the subjection of familial love, in a contemporary new version of the classic tragedy of Dr. Faustus. Original. 12,500 first printing.

A monumentally important scholar of Jewish spirituality and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright join forces to explore the meaning of the Bible in the modern world, focusing on the pentateuch. 20,000 first printing.