AMERICAN BUFFALO January 13th - February 19th Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM Sundays at 2PM by David Mamet Directed by Katie Chidester Join us for the kick-off show of our landmark 20th season! One of David Mamet's most seminal works and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play and the Obie Award for Best New Play. 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. Adult Content Purchase Tickets

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  "Director Katie Chidester moves Martin, Tully and Evans around Fred Kinney and Amy Ramirez's realistic junkshop set like chess pieces, each character bluffing the other two as if in a high-stakes poker game. The trio of actors have nearly mastered Mamet's rapid patter, which often resembles the comedy routines of Abbott and Costello – that is, Abbott and Costello meet Martin Scorsese." --Orange County Register

"There’s nothing of the sentimentalist in Mamet’s writing; but there is a keening ache that director Katie Chidester and her compelling cast manage to convey: that, each in his own way, each character is striving to gain respect from his fellow males. The fact they are all so far away from actually finding that imbues American Buffalo with a sense of tragedy that makes it compelling viewing." --Fermented Beers

 "STAGEStheatre may be presenting a piece that some find hard to hear, but they do it well. Stimulating, heady and strong in language it is, offensive to the point of walking out it is not. If you want to see a well-acted play from an award-winning writer that shows you the situational difficulty of true friendship, I suggest the intimate setting of STAGEStheatre." --Inside Fullerton

"David Mamet’s American Buffalo gets an outstanding production ... Katie Chidester’s masterful direction is most visible in her impeccable timing." --LA/OC Examiner
 
 "This production is a little adventurous for STAGEStheatre and it is good to see them broadening their field again. It is also interesting seeing the seminal 70’s play performed during our more modern economic and political controversy." --The Fullertonian (5/5 stars)

"We just came back from STAGEStheatre and whole-heartedly endorse this production of American Buffalo as a must-see performance." --Fullerton Foundry

"Although the piece debuted in 1975, the cast's superb acting makes it as fresh and raw as ever." --Fullertonstories.com

"[The play is] acutely directed by Katie Chidester and powerfully performed by: Mike Martin (Don Dubrow), Bob Tully (Walter “Teach” Cole), and Adam Evans (Bobby)." --Fullerton Observer