James Spader

Stage Door: Race, 39 Steps, Flahooley

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.28.2009 | New York


Fern Siegel

Never one to shy from provocative themes, Mamet's latest play, Race, at the Ethel Barrymore, sounds incendiary, but fails to deliver a knockout punch.

David Mamet's Race Against the Cultural Clock

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 12.12.2009 | New York


Thane Rosenbaum

While most conversations about race inspire deep ambivalence if not outright silence, Mamet converts the stage into a raucous racial seminar jacked up on truth serum.

James Spader Plays Dark, Familiar Creep In Broadway Debut

nytimes.com | PATRICK HEALY | Posted 11.26.2009 | Entertainment


"CULTIVATE the appearance of contrition," the character Jack Lawson, a lawyer, tells a white client accused of raping a black woman in "Race," a new p...

A Memory of John Hughes

Paul Katz | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment


Paul Katz

I don't remember what I said to John Hughes when I met him. All I do know is he looked at my friends and asked, "He's a Duckie, isn't he?"

James Spader Set For Mamet On Broadway

AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — James Spader is trading in Boston for Broadway. Producer Jeffrey Richards says the star of TV's "Boston Legal" as well as the film "...