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New York Times

A Junk Shop Breeding Best-Laid Plans
Robert Falls’s deflated revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” evokes the woeful image of a sports car’s flat tire, built for speed but going nowhere.

Post-Yearbook Snapshots: Buddies at a Bar, Catching Up
Blair Singer’s artful comic drama “The Most Damaging Wound,” at the Manhattan Theater Source, confirms what many women have long feared: that male bonding is all about grown men behaving like little boys.

Dad Drinks, and His Son Has Demons of His Own
With “Dawn,” a tale of alcoholism and incest, Thomas Bradshaw is to some extent a victim of his own notoriety.

Kathleen Turner Is Cast Off Broadway
Ms. Turner has joined the cast of the Off Broadway play “The Third Story” by Charles Busch.

Cheek to Cheek With Fred Astaire and Other Hollywood Royalty
Andrea Marcovicci’s new show, “Marcovicci Sings Movies II,” at the Oak Room, is an extensively altered and improved revival of one she performed there 21 years ago.

New York Daily News

'Buffalo' not worth a wooden nickel
Another week, another David Mamet revival. Or so it goes this season on Broadway, where "American Buffalo" opened last night, just three weeks after Mamet's Hollywood hate letter "Speed-the-Plow."

amNY New York City Theater

Theater Review of American Buffalo
You know that you’re watching a David Mamet play when the pre-show announcement instructs you to “turn off your f***ing cell phones.”

Broadway Unplugged at Town Hall

Rock of Ages Cast on Conan O'Brien

Kathleen Turner to Headline Third Story

Newsday

Review: 'American Buffalo'
Broadway's unofficial David Mamet festival and revival smack-down continued last night with an enjoyable if not revelatory "American Buffalo."

New York Post

Barely worth a plugged nickel
Just how many f - - - ing David Mamet revivals do we need this season? For the moment, Broadway's got two: "American Buffalo" blundered into the Belasco last night, hard on the heels of "Speed-the-Plow." Thanks to Neil Pepe's pitch-perfect staging, "Plow" has the rat-a-tat rhythms of a speed-talking FedEx...

Cindy Adams: Cops & robbers in 'reality' novel
'THE 24 Hour Plays on Broadway," a one-time-only...

New York Journal News

'Buffalo' actors go their own way
Talk about stunt casting: Comic actor Cedric the Entertainer proves remarkably serious as Donny Dubrow, the owner of a Chicago junk shop. Haley Joel Osment is Donny's somewhat slow protégé Bobby. But the Broadway veteran of the trio, John Leguizamo is wrong here.

Back into Sondheim for Greeley's 'Into the Woods' cast
Some kids wouldn't know Sondheim from Stravinsky. Not so at Chappaqua's Horace Greeley High School, where this weekend's production of 'Into the Woods' gives student actors another Sondheim credit.

Village Voice

The Fall of London: A Theater Roundup by Alexis Soloski
[sorry I missed this last Weds.]

Time Out New York Blog

Lights out on the 24 Hour Plays

Hartford Courant

Mamet's 'American Buffalo' Is Darkly Funny in Revival

Trenton Times

Revue strikes familiar notes Musical revues come in all shapes and sizes. Some have themes or subjects; others are simply collections of songs. One such collection is the intimate and informal "Déjà Vu: A Familiar Musical Revue" on offer at the Off-Broadstreet Theatre in Hopewell Borough.

'Absurd' is certainly that

Bergen Record

Chuckleheads buffaloed, again
We've recently learned that capitalism can be a fiasco at the highest levels. In David Mamet's "American Buffalo," it's also quite rickety at the bottom.