NEW YORK — David Mamet — the confounding, outspoken playwright that artistic progressives are dying to cancel — wrote “American Buffalo” in 1975, when he was just 27 years old.
Now, 46 years later, that same play is being revived for the third time on Broadway with a starry, accomplished and all-in cast made up of Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss, working under the energized direction of Neil Pepe.
The script is a work of genius, of course, and a much misunderstood masterpiece. But this revival — although lively and highly entertaining and far better cast than the 2008 attempt — doesn’t delve so deep into the real emotional core of the drama. Pity. It has the horses to do so.
