Three small-time hustlers want a bigger cut of the American dream. David Mamet’s classic about loyalty and greed stars Tony® Award winner Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, August Wilson’s Two Trains Running), Academy Award® winner and Tony Award nominee Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards, 2020 SAG Award winner for “Fosse/Verdon”), and Emmy Award® winner Darren Criss ("The Assassination of Gianni Versace," Hedwig), under the direction of Neil Pepe (Tony®-winning Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company). AMERICAN BUFFALO returns to Broadway more explosive and pointed than ever, exposing a timely American truth: the hustle and the con are two sides of the same coin.
Frank Rich of The New York Times declares, “AMERICAN BUFFALO is one of the best American plays.”
1h, 45m (incl. intermission).
March 22nd, 2022
July 10th, 2022
14+
By: David Mamet
Director: Neil Pepe
Producer: Jeffrey Richards, Steve Traxler, and Stephanie P. McClelland
Cast list: Laurence Fishburne (as Donny), Sam Rockwell (as Teach), and Darren Criss (as Bobby)
Water fountain, hearing assistance, elevators and escalators, wheelchair access, restrooms, accessible seating
The hustle and the con are two sides of the same coin in American Buffalo. David Mamet’s ferocious and timely dissection of the American Dream returns to Broadway more relevant than ever. Get American Buffalo tickets on TodayTix.
American Buffalo audiences will be required to wear masks at all performances through July 10.
Donny, the owner of a junk shop in Chicago, believes he has been swindled. He just sold a buffalo nickel to a customer for $90, but now suspects it was worth much more. With his poker buddy Teach and his young employee Bobby, Donny hatches a plan to steal back the nickel. But the plot soon spins wildly out of control.
The American Buffalo play first premiered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 1975, later transferring to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1977 for David Mamet’s Broadway debut. “This is his first trip to Broadway, but it will hardly be his last,” critic Clive Barnes wrote prophetically in The New York Times, praising the “grotesquely humorous repetitiousness” of Mamet’s dialogue: “The man can write.”
Today, Mamet remains among the foremost voices in American drama, capturing the cruel, absurd and often violent realities of life among the dogged and the downtrodden. Mamet’s many acclaimed classic works include Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna. Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning winner and has been nominated for two Tony Awards.
One of Mamet’s earliest yet still most widely acclaimed plays, American Buffalo returns to Broadway at a timely moment, when each America’s desperation for their piece of the American Dream is stronger than ever. Get American Buffalo tickets on TodayTix.
Production photos by Richard Termine
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