Summer Festival of David Mamet Plays on Tap at A.R.T.

After a Broadway season that saw revivals of David Mamet’s American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow, the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, plans to spend the summer concentrating on the playwright’s funny side. A festival titled “Sex, Satire, Romance and Ducks: A David Mamet Celebration” is on tap at the theater, which previously presented world premieres of Oleanna, Boston Marriage and The Old Neighborhood. Hair director Diane Paulus serves as artistic director at A.R.T. 

The festival’s centerpiece will be a production of the courtroom farce Romance, which had a successful off-Broadway run at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2005. Directed by Scott Zigler, it will run from May 9 to June 7 at the Loeb Drama Center. A collection of short comedies by Mamet, Harold Pinter and Shel Silverstein dubbed Seriously Funny will run from May 29 to June 6 at the Zero Arrow Theatre, followed by a double bill of Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations, running June 11-28.