David Mamet's RACE to Play Its 100th Performance March 3

RACE, the critically acclaimed new play, written and directed by David Mamet, starring James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas, will play its 100th performance on Wednesday, March 3rd at 8:00.

RACE is Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's (Glengarry GLen Ross, The Untouchables, Speed-the-Plow) most explosive four-letter word yet and proves that nothing is as simple as black-and white. Three-time Emmy® Award winner James Spader ("Boston Legal"), David Alan Grier ("In Living Color"), Kerry Washington (Ray) and Emmy® Award winner Richard Thomas (Democracy) star in this incendiary story about the perceptions and realities that color our world - and the subtle shades between being a victim and being victimized.

RACE is currently the longest-running play of this Broadway season.

Tickets for RACE may be purchased by visiting www.Telecharge.com or calling (212) 239-6200.

Here's what critics have said about RACE:

"SCALPEL-EDGED INTELLIGENCE! An examination of cultural conscience and paranoia and a topical detective story, RACE raises issues, particularly on the ethnic varieties of shame and the universal nature of guilt, that should offer ample nutrition for many a post-theater dinner conversation."
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"A HIGH-VOLTAGE MELODRAMA! RACE is unafraid to raise painful questions while dispensing prickly ideas and provocative dialogue amid steady suspense. Author/director David Mamet adroitly mixes comic darts with tragic arrows, and the play is full of wry jokes, epigrammatic jolts, and acrid, even cheeky provocations."
- John Simon, Bloomberg News

"FASCINATING AND DRAMATICALLY CHARGED! David Mamet's provocative hot-topic new play is anything but simple. The questions it poses and answers its characters supply add up to an intriguing study of perception. ."
- Michael Kuchwara, AP

"BITINGLY FUNNY AND BRISKLY ENTERTAINING! James Spader offers a pitch perfect combination of wit, weariness and cool brutality.."
- Elysa Gardner, USA Today

"TASTY DIALOGUE, SPIKY CONFRONTATIONS, AND MORE THAN OCCASIONALLY BITING OBSERVATIONS! Race riffs artfully on the subtleties of discrimination and guilt, resentment and shame, and its ambiguities appear designed to stir audiences into testy debates." - David Rooney, Variety

RACE made its world premiere at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (located at 243 West 47th St.). The show began performances on Monday, November 16, 2009 and officially opened on Sunday, December 6, 2009.

RACE features design by Santo Loquasto (set), Brian MacDevitt (lighting) and Tom Broecker (costumes).

RACE is produced by: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, JK Productions, Peggy Hill & Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Scott M. Delman, Terry Allen Kramer/James L. Nederlander, Swinsky Deitch, Bat-Barry Productions, Ronald Frankel, James Fuld Jr., Kathleen K. Johnson, Terry Schnuck, The Weinstein Company, Jay & Cindy Gutterman/Stewart Mercer and Marc Frankel.

For more information on RACE, visit http://www.raceonbroadway.com/

Photo: Robert J. Saferstein

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