‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Broadway Review: Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr & Bob Odenkirk Break Bad In Unmissable Succession Of Cutthroats
deadline.comOpening night: March 31, 2025Venue: Broadway’s The Palace TheatreWritten by: David MametDirected by: Patrick MarberCast: Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, Michael McKean, Donald Webber, Jr., Howard W.
Overshown, John PirruccelloRunning time: 1 hr 45 min (one intermission)Deadline’s takeaway: It should strike more than one visitor to Broadway’s latest revival of Glengarry Glen Ross that much – make that very much – of television today owes a massive debt to playwright David Mamet.
The TV-heavy cast of this excellent revival directed by the great Patrick Marber (whose 2020 Leopoldstadt remains one of the 21st Century’s great Broadway achievements) seems to have absorbed the Mametspeak dialect once seldom heard outside the walls of the Atlantic Theater Company downtown.
But try to imagine Kieran Culkin’s Roman Roy in Succession or Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul or Bill Burr’s angry stand-up persona without Mamet before them.
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