Race, a New Play by David Mamet, Sets Broadway Dates

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s recent string of works on Broadway will be extending a bit longer. The scribe’s newest work, Race, will make its way to the Rialto at the end of this year, producer Jeffrey Richards told The New York Times on March 10. Rehearsals are slated to begin on October 26. Previews are scheduled for November 20, with opening night set for December 10. Additional information about the show, including casting, theater and details of the piece, have yet to be revealed.

“I think the title speaks for itself,” Richards told the Times. “It’s a great new work by Mamet.”

Mamet’s plays have rarely been off the Broadway boards in the last year. The playwright’s most recent new work, the political satire November, played the Ethel Barrymore Theatre last season from December 2007 to July 2008, and was followed this season with two revivals: American Buffalo, which closed on November 24, and the star-studded media-frenzy Speed-the-Plow, which played its final performance on February 22.

Richards will reteam with producing partner Jerry Frankel they collaborated on the Tony-winning revival of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross and the Speed-the Plow revival and Steve Traxler.