Photo Preview: RACE Marquee Unveiled at the Barrymore Theatre

RACE, starring James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas, just started rehearsals on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009.

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.

The RACE marquee was recently unveiled at Barrymore and our BroadwayWorld.com cameras were there to bring you some images of the display.

RACE also announced its award winning design team: 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's Marquee Unveiled at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

RACE at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet's RACE

RACE at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The cast of RACE is spotlighted

RACE at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre