How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?

First Published in 2000. Why do we go to the theater? There''s a question! Or put it this way: Why, oh why, do we go to the theater? If we go to a movie and it isn''t any good, well it''s not the end of the world. We''re usually quite content just the same. It passes the time. Though, as Samuel Beckett pointed out, the time would have passed anyway. But if we''re disappointed at the theater, every...