David Mamet’s Race Books Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Race, a new play written and directed by David Mamet, will make its world premiere at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre this fall. As previously announced, the production is set to begin previews on November 17 with the official opening night on December 6. A design team has been announced. Details on casting are still forthcoming.

Race will reunite Mamet with Tony Award-winning scenic designer Santo Loquasto, who designed the set for the revival of Glengarry Glen Ross as well as the original American Buffalo. It will also be a reunion for Mamet and Tony Award-winning lighting designer Brian MacDevitt, who recently worked on Speed-The-Plow and American Buffalo revivals. Costumes will be designed by Tony Award nominee Paul Tazewell, whose recent credits include Guys and Dolls, In the Heights and A Raisin the Sun.

Race will be the fourth Mamet play to play at the Barrymore Theatre Speed-the-Plow, November, American Buffalo, marking the the third consecutive season for the Barrymore to be home to a Mamet play, as November debuted there in the 2007-2008 season, followed by Speed-the-Plow in 2008-2009.

David Mamet, the acclaimed and award-winning playwright of American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, November and The Cryptogram, among others, will direct the world premiere of Race. Mamet’s staging credits include the world premieres of his plays Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Boston Marriage and Faustus, as well as Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants and Ricky Jay: On the Stem, and various productions for the Atlantic Theater Company and Circle Rep. For motion pictures, he has previously written and directed Redbelt, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, Catastrophe, The Winslow Boy, The Spanish Prisoner, Oleanna, Homicide, Things Change and House of Games. For television, he has directed numerous episodes of his CBS hit series The Unit, for which he also is creator and executive producer.

Race will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel & Steve Traxler, the award-winning producers of Speed-The-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross as well as August: Osage County, Blithe Spirit and Desire Under the Elms.