SPEED-THE-POL: NOVEMBER Actors Discuss David Mamet, Nathan Lane & Broadway’s High-Octane Political Satire Diabolically funny. Unabashedly cunning. Politically insensitive. Welcome to David Mamet’s November – a carnival of pre-election heebie-jeebies starring Nathan Lane as President Charles Smith, a bombastic, duplicitous commander in chief who, after four years in office, is drowning in bipartisan quicksand. (read the story...)

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