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Review - American Buffalo - Small-Time Theft Played Small

LA's Ovation Awards Announced - Cabrillo Music Theatre Leads With Six Wins; Metcalf, Paz, Glover Also Win

Playbill

* PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Penny Fuller
* Harriell Is New Girl In the Heights, Starting Nov. 18
* Itamar Moses' Baseball Play, Back Back Back, Is Up at Bat in NYC, Opening Nov. 18
* Sardelli and Taylor-Corbett Named 2008 Callaway Award Winners
* Chita Rivera Returns to Feinstein's Nov. 18
* George Street's Seafarer, with Cuccioli and Schramm, Begins Performances Nov. 18
* Dust Settles Off-Broadway Nov. 18 with Foster and Masur
* Dramatists Guild Honors Stein, Letts, Miranda, Lucas Nov. 18; Harnick and Irving Perform
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Launches National Tour in Florida Nov. 18
* Chicago's "Talkback Tuesdays" Series Offers D'Amboise & D'Amboise Nov. 18
* "Brotherly Love": Sondheim and Weidman's Road Show Opens at the Public Nov. 18

TheaterMania

Review: American Buffalo
Robert Falls directs an effective if not explosive revival of David Mamet's career-making play about three small-time crooks.

Review: My Vaudeville Man
Shonn Wiley and Karen Murphy bring their considerable talents to this slight entertainment about a young dancer and his worried mother.

Review: Dear Edwina
Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich' s cute kids musical is about a Michigan girl who gives advice via her own weekly front-of-garage musical revue.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: American Buffalo
The con is on, but it’s not on the audience. The new revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo at the Belasco takes so many uncalculated risks in its casting, it might at first seem the names were pulled out of a very tattered, very multicultural hat. John Leguizamo? Haley Joel Osment? Cedric the Entertainer? On the short list - heck, on the long list - of high-born interpreters of Mamet’s piercing machine-gun dialogue, these are not names on which your mind’s eye alights. Yet this production, as directed by Robert Falls, turns their potential liabilities into major strengths. . .

Review: My Vaudeville Man
Why does vaudeville continue to fascinate so many decades after its dissolution? The nomadic lifestyle it engendered in those who made it a career? The wealth of material to emerge from it that remains a vital part of our entertainment consciousness? The performers who, facing multiple shows daily in front of hard-to-please audiences, had to develop skills and personas that could triumph over any adversity? . . .

CurtainUp

Review: My Vaudeville Man!
For vaudeville and musical theater buffs, this gutsy little musical with a big heart pays a welcome and overdue homage to an entertainer who is now virtually forgotten . . .

Review: Dawn
Despite being a little rough around the edges , the playwright, director and cast all make a great team .