Speed-the-Plow will now open at the Barrymore Theatre on 23 Oct

The 20th Anniversary revival of David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow will now make its Broadway bow at the Ethal Barrymore Theatre, and not Belasco Theatre as originally annoounced.

The change of venue follows the news that the Broadway revival of Godspell, which was to play at the Barrymore Theatre from 29 Sep 2008, has been indefinitely postponed.

Speed-The-Plow will now open on 23 Oct 2008, and not the 26 Oct 2008. The revival's will still previews from 3 Oct 2008 as originally announced.

Speed-The-Plow will see Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) make her Broadway debut as 'Karen,' the temporary secretary to executive producer 'Bobby Gould'

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jeremy Piven (Entourage, Fat Pig) will play ambitious producer 'Bobby Gould' and three-time Tony-nominee Ra�l Esparza (The Homecoming, Company, Taboo) as film production exec 'Charlie Fox.' Neil Pepe (David Mamet�s Romance, Ethan Coen�s Almost an Evening) is to direct.

Speed-The-Plow is Mamet�s scathing portrait of the film industry and the people who are willing to sell their souls for sex, fame and fortune. The play begins with Fox coming to his long-time friend Gould after he unexpectedly gets the twenty-four-hour option to a prison movie. Their 20-year friendship undergoes a test of loyalty when Karen, the na�ve-seeming temporary secretary comes between the project with an agenda of her own.

Speed-The-Plow was first produced on Broadway in 1988 at the Royale Theatre (now called Bernard B. Jacobs,) directed by Gregory Mosher and starred Madonna as 'Karen', Joe Mantegna as 'Bobby Gould' and Ron Silver as 'Charlie Fox'. The play was nominated for Tony's for Best Play and Best director, and Ron Silver won a Tony Award for Best Best Actor in Play.

This is the second Mamet play being produced on the great white way this season, American Buffalo is to play Broadway in the fall, directed by Robert Falls. That revival may star John Leguizamo though that is still to be confirmed.

American Buffalo was the first of Mamet's plays to be performed on Broadway. The playwright's other Broadway credits include: 'The Water Engine / Mr. Happiness' (1978), 'Glengarry Glen Ross' (1984, revival 2005), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and 'The Old Neighborhood' (1997) and 'November' which recently ended its run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

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