Enter the world of Mamet. Come see the sexy world of Hollywood in all its sizzling brutality. From the author of Glengarry Glen Ross, Romance, Oleanna, and “The Untouchables,” came the 20^th anniversary revival of Speed-The-Plow.  

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Category: Play, Revival, Broadway
Setting: Bobby Gould’s office and home.
1^st Preview Performance: October 3, 2008
Opening Night Performance: October 23, 2008
Final Performance: February 22, 2009
Total # of Performances: 140 

Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, JK Productions, Ronald Frankel, Ostar Productions, Peggy Hill, Bat-Barry Productions, Ken Davenport, Scott Delman, Ergo Entertainment, Dede Harris, Alan D. Marks, Patty Ann McKinnon, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Adam Sansiveri, Jamie deRoy and Carl Moellenberg; Associate Producer: Rebecca Gold and Debbie Bisno; Presented in association with The Atlantic Theater Company

Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

Written by David Mamet

Directed by Neil Pepe; Assistant Director: Jaime Castaneda

Scenic Design by Scott Pask; Costume Design by Laura Bauer; Lighting Design by Brian MacDevitt; Assistant Scenic Design: Jeffrey Hinchee, Orit Jacoby Carroll and Lauren Alvarez; Associate Costume Design: Bobby Tilley; Associate Lighting Design: Michael O'Connor and Caroline Chao

General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.; Company Manager: Bruce Klinger; Associate Gen. Mgr: John E. Gendron

Production Stage Manager: Matthew Silver; Technical Supervisor: Larry Morley; Stage Manager: David H. Lurie

Casting: Telsey + Company; Fight direction by J. David Brimmer; General Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates, Irene Gandy and Alana Karpoff; Advertising: Serino Coyne, Inc.; Photographer: Brigitte Lacombe

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“A WORLD-CLASS ROLLER COASTER RIDE!  – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“A WICKEDLY FINE REVIVAL! David Mamet hilariously ponders the confusing and unpredictable tensions between sex and power, ideals and ambitions. Raul Esparza’s brutal resourcefulness will leave you titillated and haunted. – USA Today

“HILARIOUSLY PROFANE!” – The Hollywood Reporter

RAÚL ESPARZA most recently starred in the Tony-nominated revival of The Homecoming for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Prior to that he starred in the Tony-Award winning Company, for which he received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and a Tony nomination. His previous New York stage appearances include Taboo, for which he also received a Tony nomination, The Normal Heart, Comedians, and tick, tick…Boom!, all of which earned him Drama League nominations. He received a 2001 Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut in the revival of The Rocky Horror Show.

ELISABETH MOSS currently stars as Peggy Olson in the Golden Globe Award-winning drama series Mad Men, currently airing in its second season.  Moss was nominated in 2008 for a SAG Award along with her Mad Men castmates for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Mad Men received 16 Emmy nominations including “Outstanding Drama Series" and the show was additionally honored with a Peabody Award, An AFI Award, a TCA Award and a Writers Guild of America Award.  Moss’ theatre credits include: Franny in Franny’s Way presented by Playwrights Horizons at the Atlantic Theater Company. She also played the same role at the Geffen Playhouse, L.A.  She has performed in The Nutcracker with The Joffrey Ballet and in Sleeping Beauty with The New York City Ballet.  Film credits include: Buddy Gilbert Comes Alive, The Attic, Day Zero, The Missing, Girl, Interrupted, Mumford, The Joyriders, A Thousand Acres, Imaginary Crimes and Virgin, for which she was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.  She previously played Zoey Bartlet for seven seasons on The West Wing.    

JEREMY PIVEN’s critically acclaimed, award winning portrayal of the slick, fast talking super agent, “Ari Gold” in the smash-hit HBO original series Entourage has propelled him to the forefront of the entertainment industry. The role has earned him a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards. Piven, will next be seen starring in the feature film comedy The Goods for Paramount Vantage as well as the Guy Ritchie directed Rocknrolla. Piven was most recently seen on the big screen in director Peter Berg’s political drama The Kingdom opposite Jamie Foxx and in Joe Carnahan’s Smokin Aces, in which he starred opposite Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta. Prior to Entourage, Piven had already established his presence in over 40 feature films with a number of impressive credits which include, The Player, Runaway Jury, Old School, Serendipity, Black Hawk Down, Very Bad Things, Singles,  Rush Hour 2 and The Family Man.  On the small screen Piven was a series regular on Cupid and Ellen and appeared on The Larry Sanders Show and in the telepic Don King: Only in America. In 2005, Piven returned to his theater acting roots when he starred alongside Keri Russell and Andrew McCarthy in the off-Broadway hit, Fat Pig by Neil LaBute. For his role, Piven received a Distinguished Performance Honor from the Drama League.   Piven was born and raised in Chicago where his parents founded the Piven Theatre Workshop. His father, Byrne, taught the likes of John and Joan Cusack, Roseanna Arquette and Aidan Quinn. Jeremy is still very active with this Theatre and returns to Chicago frequently to help keep his father’s dream alive. 

NORBERT LEO BUTZ, recently hailed as “one of the finest American stage stars of (his) generation” by Ben Brantley of the New York Times, has starred on Broadway in Is He Dead?, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League award winner, Best Actor, Musical), Wicked (original cast, Fiyero), Thou Shalt Not (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations) and Rent (original cast, Broadway debut). He most recently appeared Off-Broadway in the acclaimed production of Fifty Words (Manhattan Class Company)

WILLIAM H. MACY has a long association with playwright David Mamet, having starred in New York in productions including Oleanna and American Buffalo.  He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in the film Fargo. He also appeared in Benny & Joon, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Seabiscuit, Magnolia, Pleasantville, Boogie Nights and Air Force One. In 2002, he won  Emmy Awards for both Lead Actor in a Miniseries and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries with the TV film “Door to Door”.

DAVID MAMET was most recently represented on Broadway by November and won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other stage credits include Speed-The-Plow (Tony nom.), The Cryptogram (Pulitzer nom.), Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Oleanna, Romance, Boston Marriage, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre and the adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. Mamet is also a two-time Academy Award-nominee for The Verdict and Wag the Dog whose other film credits include State and Main, The Winslow Boy, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide and The Untouchables. He a writer and co-producer for the current CBS hit “The Unit” and the author of numerous novels including The Wicked Son and Bambi vs. Godzilla.

NEIL PEPE (Director)has been the Artistic Director of the award-winning Atlantic Theater Company since 1992. Under Mr. Pepe's direction the Atlantic has garnered four Tony awards, six Obie awards and numerous others. He recently simultaneously directed both the acclaimed, sold-out world premiere of Academy Award^® winning filmmaker Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening at Atlantic Stage 2 (and the subsequent commercial transfer to The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street), and the world premiere of Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song at Atlantic’s main stage Linda Gross Theatre. Pepe most recently staged a double-bill of Atlantic co-founder David Mamet’s plays – The Duck Variations and the world-premiere of Keep Your Pantheon at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles.He directed Harold Pinter's first and most recent plays, The Room and Celebration at Atlantic and staged the world premiere of David Mamet's new play Romance in 2005, also at the Atlantic. He directed the world premiere of Howard Korder's Sea Of Tranquility in Spring of 2004 as well as the American premiere of Jez Butterworth's The Night Heron in the Fall of 2003 at the Atlantic. Mr. Butterworth and Mr. Pepe also collaborated on the critically acclaimed New York premiere of Butterworth's play Mojo (Drama League Award nomination). Mr. Pepe directed the last major revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, starring William H. Macy, Phillip Baker Hall and Mark Webber which had its initial run at the Donmar Warehouse in London before moving to a sold-out run in New York. In the Fall of 2002, he directed the American premiere of the award-winning Joe Penhall play Blue/Orange starring Harold Perrineau, Glenn Fitzgerald and Zjelko Ivanek. Other notable productions include The Beginning Of August by Tom Donaghy starring Mary Steenburgen (South Coast Repertory and Atlantic), the World Premiere of Eric Bogosian's Red Angel starring Mr. Bogosian at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Refuge by Jessica Goldberg at Playwrights' Horizons, Zinnie Harris' Further Than The Furthest Thing at Manhattan Theatre Club, Wolf Lullaby by Hilary Bell, Clean by Edwin Sanchez, and Shaker Heights by Quincy Long (Outer Critic' Circle Award nomination), all at the Atlantic.

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