"November" at Ethel Barrymore Theatre
David Mamet continues his prolific nature with a bicoastal presence on the live stage. While Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet is underway in LA, November is creating laughter in NYC. Led by Nathan Lane, he of the angular eyebrows, November tells the tale of a narrow minded US President looking at the narro
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November to End Broadway Run in July
The acclaimed David Mamet comedy November will play its final performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre July 13. When it closes the Joe Mantello-directed production will have played a total of 205 performances.
Read the article November Campaigns for Laughs from Mayor Bloomberg and Neil Simon
New York City's 108th mayor became November's number one fan on May 21. That's when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg dropped by the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to take in David Mamet's political satire, starring the one and only Nathan Lane.
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IF Michael Bloomberg ever gets out of politics, there's a career on Broadway waiting for him. The mayor and his girlfriend, Diana Taylor, went to see "November" on Broadway the other night. After the performance, Bloomberg talked to Nathan Lane for 20 minutes backstage.
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I don’t go to the theatre often, so when I do it had better be good. Last Saturday I was in New York to see November, and it did not disappoint. November features Broadway megastar Nathan Lane and is written by the dean of midtown, David Mamet, so it’s kind of a can’t-miss. This combination also brings an expectation of something that’s really good, and I’m happy to report it is.
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HAPPY families are all alike, Tolstoy wrote - but he never met Zoe Perry\'s clan. Zoe\'s the actress daughter of divorced actors, now both on Broadway: Her mom, Laurie Metcalf, is in "November" and her dad, Jeff Perry, is in "August: Osage County."
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Meet Broadway lighting designer Paul Gallo, one of the incandescent talents behind November. "Lighting," says Paul Gallo, is "very primal. To all of us, it's the most natural thing, more than we realize. When we're born, the first thing we respond to is light. And when we get up and look outside and it's a sunny day, we don't feel the same as when it's a dark day."
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David Mamet’s blog promoting his Broadway comedy “November” (at novembertheplay.com) is an intriguing if half-hearted experiment. Written in the voice of the main character, a bumbling president who tries to blackmail and buy his way to re-election, the blog occasionally echoes Mr. Mamet’s 2005 Off Broadway play, “Romance,” a too-late attack on political correctness.
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Nathan Lane to appear on "The View" Tuesday, February 26th on ABC and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" Friday February 22nd on NBC.
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Look out Obama and Hillary…President Charles H. P. Smith is up for re-election and has won more than just a primary. In fact, every night at the Barrymore Theatre, Nathan Lane is currently playing a somewhat disgraced and loathed, but still oddly endearing President in David Mamet's new comedy November. Now YOU can join in on the President's campaign for re-election.
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Art imitates life. In November, David Mamet's politically incorrect political comedy, Clarice Bernstein, speechwriter for a U.S. President (played by Nathan Lane), is ordered to the Oval Office by means of a telephone call. In real life, the speechwriter role was offered to Laurie Metcalf via a telephone call. "A David Mamet play, on Broadway, with Nathan Lane, and Joe Mantello [directing]? I immediately said yes. [Laughs]"
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SO, to report to you what takes place behind the scenes of a Broadway show, I planted myself backstage during a performance of "November." It stars Nathan Lane. It's about an unpopular president at the end of his term. It is, to me, Broadway's funniest play.
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As chief of staff Archer Brown, Baker trades barbs with Nathan Lane, who stars as Charles H.P. Smith, the hilariously incompetent President of the United States. Baker has long been the go-to guy for roles that require smarts with a satirical edge, and his innate comic timing is essential to the success of November.
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This week I interviewed Nathan Lane for my Sirius radio show. He told me that he grew up in Jersey and, shockingly, only did one musical in High School. It was No No Nanette for a neighboring all-girls school. I assumed it was like being an Equity Guest Artist that's jobbed in…and by "Equity Guest Artist," I mean "Catholic High School closeted Senior" and by "jobbed in" I mean, "driven by your mother."
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This dramatic device elevates the satire to a much broader plane and puts Mamet’s play on par with other great political dramas that are issue- rather than personality-driven, including such classics as “Inherit the Wind,” “Of Thee I Sing,” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” In fact, Mamet’s play — a rollicking comedy despite its mordant satire — feels like the classic comedies of Kaufman and Hart, pushing situation far beyond credibility while still maintaining an inherent truth that is irresistible.
Read the article How Laurie Metcalf keeps a straight face (most of the time) in David Mamet's new political farce
Laurie Metcalf may have the straightest face in comedy. But she confesses that she and co-star Dylan Baker are pushed to limits of their endurance by star Nathan Lane, who headlines David Mamet's new political farce November at the Barrymore.
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David Mamet's "November" is a hilarious, timely, decidedly un-Mamet-like laughfest at the Ethel Barrymore that stars Nathan Lane as a corrupt, dim-bulbed, inept U.S. president desperately seeking a second term despite four years of deadbeat leadership.
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The big, explosive laughter that starts early in David Mamet's November is of a kind I haven't heard in decades: It's the laughter of people who've been granted an unexpected degree of public permission.
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One of Steppenwolf’s founding members, Laurie Metcalf, is starring with Nathan Lane and Dylan Baker in David Mamet’s new comedy, “November,” which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
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NOVEMBER opened to wall-to-wall laughter at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Broadway World captured the curtain call (and encore!) as well as the star-spangled celebrity arrivals.
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The world premiere of David Mamet's new comedy, NOVEMBER, officially opens!
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The prolific playwright David Mamet discusses the things that did and did not inspire his new comedy, NOVEMBER.
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Comedian Steve Martin made a visit to see NOVEMBER and meet the president.
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Nathan Lane takes office in the world premiere of David Mamet's NOVEMBER at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
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