American Buffalo
Circle in the Square Theatre
Previews Began: March 22, 2022
Opening Night: April 14, 2022
Closing Night: July 10, 2022
Playwright: David Mamet
In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But the reality of the three – Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing; and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart – is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Darren Criss Bobby
Laurence Fishburne Donny
Sam Rockwell Teach