A Life in the Theatre

A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet

June 13-30, 2024

Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland

Directed by Andrew Paul, Starring Sam Tsoutsouvas and Joseph McGranaghan 

"A comedy about the artifice of acting...it is also about the artifice of living...an evening of pure theatre." - The New York Times

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow takes us inside the lives of two actors in a classical repertory company: Robert, a veteran actor firmly entrenched in his position and committed to his craft and John, young and rising into the first flush of his success. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges, we experience the estrangement of youth from experience and the wider, inevitable, and endless cycle of life, on and off the stage. 

Written in 1977, after Mamet's first success at the Royal Court in London and inspired by his observations of the British Theatre in the age of the great Actor/Managers, A Life in the Theatre is simultaneously an homage to repertory theatre and a celebration of the craft of acting.