New Mamet Play, November, to Open on Bway in Jan.

According to Variety, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet will soon be represented on Broadway with a new play about a presidential election. It will open in mid-January of 2008 in a Shubert-owned theatre to be determined.

November will be helmed by Joe Mantello (Blackbird, Wicked, Assassins), who also directed the revival of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross in 2005.  It will be produced by Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel (Spring Awakening), who also brought Glengarry Glen Ross to the stage, with set design by Tony Award-winner Scott Pask (The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia).  No casting has been announced.

A new Mamet play has not been seen on Broadway since 1997's The Old Neighborhood.  November is "set a few days before the election.  The five-character play follows the misadventures of a day in the life of U.S. president Charles Smith."

Mamet, known for his staccato dialogue and morally flawed characters, is a Pulitzer Prize-winner for Glengarry Glen Ross.  His other plays include Boston Marriage, Romance, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Oleanna, The Woods and The Crytogram.  His adaptation of Harley Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance was recently a hit for the Atlantic Theater Company.  He has also written screenplays for many films, including Edmond, Spartan, Heist, State and Main and The Winslow Boy, as well as screen adaptations for some of his plays.