November, New Comedy by Mamet, Headed for Broadway

November, a new play by David Mamet about the days preceding a presidential election, will have its world premiere on Broadway in mid-January 2008 in a production directed by Joe Mantello, according to Variety. The show will go into a Shubert theater yet to be determined.

Described as a comedy set a few days before the election, the five-character play follows the misadventures of a day in the life of U.S. president Charles Smith. No casting has been announced.

Mantello directed the 2005 Broadway production of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, which won a Tony for Best Revival. November will be produced by Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel, who mounted Glengarry as well as Talk Radio and other shows. Scott Pask will design the set.

Variety noted that the last Mamet play to premiere on Broadway was Speed-the-Plow, co-starring Ron Silver and Madonna, produced by Lincoln Center Theater at the Royale in 1988. The Old Neighborhood, which began at the American Repertory Theater in Boston, was the last new Mamet play on Broadway, produced at the Booth in 1997 in a production production starring Patti LuPone, Peter Riegert and the playwright's wife, Rebecca Pidgeon. Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company, co-founded by Mamet, produced the world premiere of Romance in 2005 and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance earlier this season.