Theater
September, 1979
It's not every night, God knows, that the drama critic of The New York Times makes his deadline dash up the aisle of a converted print shop about 830 miles west of Broadway. Yet it came to pass, one recent November evening, that Mel Gussow covered the world premiere of The Woods, by Wunderkind playwright David Mamet. Gussow returned to the Apple bubbling, comparing Mamet to Pinter and Hemingway--predictably, perhaps, since Gussow's voice had been among the loudest acclaiming such earlier Mamet w...
