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Three small-time hustlers want a bigger cut of theAmerican dream. David Mamet's explosive dramaexposes a timely American truth: The hustle and thecon are two sides of the same coin. In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot torob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece ofwhich is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-mindedgrifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuinglegitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the  junk shopowner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken underhis wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, aremerely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams. "This production of  American Buffalo , opening as the holiday season is moments away, and isn’t exactly in the spirit of merriment. However, ...

Three small-time hustlers want a bigger cut of theAmerican dream. David Mamet's explosive dramaexposes a timely American truth: The hustle and thecon are two sides of the same coin. In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot torob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece ofwhich is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-mindedgrifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuinglegitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the  junk shopowner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken underhis wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, aremerely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams. "This production of  American Buffalo , opening as the holiday season is moments away, and isn’t exactly in the spirit of merriment. However, ...

When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly ...

Is God Is by Aleshea Harris is a modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the DirtySouth to the California desert to exact righteousrevenge. ...

“The Total Immersion of Madeleine Favorini” is a surreal 3-performer piece (15 roles) in which 46-year-old Madeleine Favorini journeys from dutifulness to rebellion on a ...