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• Hilton Als: David Mamet latest book, “Theatre.”

Almost since the beginning of his career, the playwright David Mamet has established certain theories about how theatre artists should approach their work. As it happens, Mamet is a distinctly anti-Stanislavsky creator, eschewing Method acting, and believing that the actor’s inner life is not the point; the . . ....

• Hilton Als: Tom Stoppard’s think piece.

Here’s a quick list of things I don’t understand about the current revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play “Arcadia” (at the Ethel Barrymore). I don’t understand why Bel Powley, who plays the aristocratic nineteenth-century adolescent Thomasina Coverly, thinks that . . . (Subscription required.)...

• John Lahr: Tennessee Williams and David Mamet on the damage that we do.

When we first encounter Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois in the Sydney Theatre Company’s thrilling production of Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” (directed by Liv Ullmann, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), she is literally backed into a corner, sitting on her small . . ....

• John Lahr: “Death of a Salesman” and “Camino Real,” in revival.

In the first beat of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (now in a luminous revival, directed by Mike Nichols, at the Ethel Barrymore), the salesman Willy Loman (Philip Seymour Hoffman) trudges up the path to his Brooklyn house, sample cases in hand. He has returned . . ....

• Michael Schulman: The many dressing rooms of Patrick Stewart.

Sir Patrick Stewart has occupied a long line of dressing rooms, most recently at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where he sat the other day, his large voice filling the room’s small quarters. In David Mamet’s “A Life in the Theatre,” Stewart plays Robert, a preening . . ....

• Goings on About Town: On the Horizon

THE THEATRE POWER PLAY Sept. 29 David Mamet has no fewer than four plays being produced in New York this fall, including the Broadway première of the 1992 two-hander “Oleanna,” with Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles as a professor and a student. Doug Hughes directs . . ....

• John Lahr: David Hirson and David Mamet on life in the theatre.

Reader, have you noticed a whiff of misrule in the air? At home and abroad, terrorists and Tea Partiers, emboldened by ignorance, are threatening to bring an early fin to our siècle. Civil discourse is strained; understanding is regularly trumped by hectoring—a folly that has a . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BEST IS YET TO COME: THE MUSIC OF CY COLEMAN Rubicon Theatre presents a revue of Coleman’s music, conceived and directed by David Zippel, as . . ....

• John Lahr: Nina Raine’s “Tribes” and Katori Hall’s “Hurt Village.”

8220;Silence is the unbearable repartee,” G. K. Chesterton once observed. In Nina Raine’s subtle and scintillating new play, “Tribes” (elegantly directed by David Cromer, at the Barrow Street Theatre), silence is the shadow that lends brilliance to the hubbub around the bohemian, intellectual upper . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. CAPTAIN FERGUSON’S SCHOOL FOR BALLOON WARFARE Oracle Theatre presents this play written by Isaac Rathbone and directed by Philip Emeott, about a U.S. military aviator in . . ....

• Hilton Als: Tracy Letts, David Mamet, and Keith Huff separate the men from the boys.

The tremendous heart at the center of Tracy Letts’s “Superior Donuts” (at the Music Box, under the direction of Tina Landau) is a tricky one. Watching the mentor-protégé dynamic play itself out is often a seductive affair—it satisfies our narcissistic . . ....

• Goings on About Town: This Week

The Theatre CLOWNING AROUND Mark Rylance, last seen here in “Boeing-Boeing,” returns to Broadway in David Hirson’s comedy “La Bête,” also directed by Matthew Warchus. David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley star as well, at the Music Box. <!--(See page 8 . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. BRITS OFF BROADWAY The annual festival includes Carl Caulfield’s biographical play “Being Sellers,” on the thirtieth anniversary of Peter Sellers’s death, directed . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. LA BARBERÍA David Maldonado and Ari Maniel Cruz’s comic drama, directed by Waddys Jaquez and performed mostly in Spanish, tells the story of a . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. AMERICAN SEXY Trista Baldwin’s play, directed by Mia Walker, follows four college students on a road trip to Las Vegas, with a stop at the Grand Canyon . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. AMERICAN SEXY Trista Baldwin’s play, directed by Mia Walker, follows four college students on a road trip to Las Vegas, with a stop at the Grand Canyon . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE COLUMNIST Manhattan Theatre Club stages David Auburn’s play about the mid-century political writer Joseph Alsop, starring John Lithgow, Margaret Colin, Boyd Gaines, Stephen Kunken . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. AMERICAN SEXY Trista Baldwin’s play, directed by Mia Walker, follows four college students on a road trip to Las Vegas, with a stop at the Grand . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. AMERICAN SEXY Trista Baldwin’s play, directed by Mia Walker, follows four college students on a road trip to Las Vegas, with a stop at the Grand . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. “BUILDING CHARACTERS” Resonance Ensemble presents Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder,” directed by Eric Parness, and June Finfer’s “The Glass House,” directed . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BRIDGE PROJECT’S RICHARD III The Bridge Project, along with the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, presents the Shakespeare play, directed by Sam Mendes, with . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BRIDGE PROJECT’S RICHARD III The Bridge Project, along with the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, presents the Shakespeare play, directed by Sam Mendes, with . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BRIDGE PROJECT’S RICHARD III The Bridge Project, co-presenting with the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, presents the Shakespeare play, directed by Sam Mendes . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BRIDGE PROJECT’S RICHARD III The Bridge Project, co-presenting with the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, presents the Shakespeare play, directed by Sam Mendes . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BRIDGE PROJECT’S RICHARD III The Bridge Project, co-presenting with the Old Vic, BAM, and Neal Street, presents the Shakespeare play, directed by Sam Mendes . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. BOTTOM OF THE WORLD Atlantic Theatre Company presents the première of a play by Lucy Thurber (“Scarcity”), directed by Caitriona McLaughlin, about a young woman dealing with . . ....

• Rae Armantrout: “Arrivals.”

Sign in the airport: It’s not how much Cloud, but what kind. * Welcome. “We don’t play requests, but we don’t play bagpipes, either. We figure that’s fair.” That’s the bad-boy sass of globalization kick-starting you on . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE EMPEROR JONES The Irish Rep production of Eugene O’Neill’s drama, directed by Ciaran O’Reilly, moves to SoHo Playhouse. In previews. Opens Dec. 22. (15 . . ....