David Mamet Double Bill Set for L.A.’s Kirk Douglas Theatre

Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations, a pair of one-act plays by David Mamet, will be presented at L.A.’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, May 11-June 8. The production replaces A Waitress in Yellowstone, a musical written by Mamet that has been indefinitely postponed. The one-acts, which open officially on May 18, will be directed by Neil Pepe, the artistic director of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, which was co-founded by Mamet.

Keep Your Pantheon, which is a world premiere, is a rousing farce that follows the fortunes and misfortunes of an acting troupe in ancient Rome. Duck Variations, which was written in the 1970s, depicts conversations between two elderly men who are sitting on a park bench watching ducks.

Mamet’s new play, November, begins previews on Broadway later this month. His 1988 comedy Speed-the-Plow is being revived next year by the Old Vic in London and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. His other plays include Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, American Buffalo, Romance, and Boston Marriage.

For more information, call 213-628-2772 or visit www.CenterTheatreGroup.org.