Season 2, Episode 5: Behind every summer is a community that keeps Fire Island alive. This episode explores the history of the beloved Pines Pantry through the eyes of its iconic Pantry Girls, alongside the volunteer firefighters of The Pines and Cherry Grove who protect the island from fires, hurricanes, beach erosion, and an uncertain future.
Photos: The Broadway Cast of David Mamet's 'RACE' Meets the Press
By: Walter McBride
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David Mamet's RACE, starring James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas, just started rehearsals on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. The RACE cast took a quick break from rehearsal and "met the press" at the Atlantic Theatre Company Studios and BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there
It will begin its engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (located at 243 West 47th St.) on Monday, November 16th at 8pm, with the official opening night on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 8pm.
RACE features the award winning design team of set designer Santo Loquasto, lighting designer Brian MacDevitt and costume designer Tom Broecker.
RACE will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel & Steve Traxler, who previously collaborated together on David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow, Glengarry GLen Ross, and November.
David Mamet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Glengarry GLen Ross, has also written Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby Gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood, November and the recent adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. A two-time Academy Award nominee for The Verdict and Wag the Dog, Mamet's additional film credits include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Untouchables, Hoffa, Ronin, The Edge, and We're No Angels. His nonfiction work includes The Wicked Son, True and False, and Bambi vs. Godzilla. He is a member of New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which he founded in 1985 with William H. Macy.
Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
RACE on Broadway
David Mamet's RACE at the Barrymore
David Alan Grier, James Spader, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas
David Alan Grier, James Spader, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas
David Alan Grier, James Spader, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas
Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas
David Alan Grier, James Spader, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas
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