“I once won one of Mary Ann Madden’s ‘Competitions’ in New York magazine. The task was to name or create a ’10’ of anything, and mine was the World’s Perfect Theatrical Review. It went like this: ‘I never understood the theater until last night. Please forgive everything I’ve ever written. When you read this I’ll be dead.’ That, of course, is the only review anybody in the theater ever wants to get.”
David Mamet, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal'” (Village Voice, Mar. 11, 2008)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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