David Mamet's new play Race is awesome. That's the review done. Okay fine need to say a little bit more than just that to keep this audience intact. Right from the start,this play Race pace. The script was action-packed, with classic lines all the way through. If you're a lawyer, itt's not the kind of play that you to walk away thinking to yourself way, "I love being a lawyer". For a white guy David Mamet digs in deep, between blacks and whites.

The cast was cast perfectly. James Spader plays Jack Lawson, the head of the law firm, who's pretty cynical about human nature. David Alan Grier plays Henry Brown, a righteous lawyer with morals. Kerry Washington is Susan a rookie lawyer who tries to do the right thing. And Richard Thomas plays Jack Strickland, a kind of messed up billionaire, who runs into a little more trouble than Tiger Woods.
 
Pretty typical in most Memet plays is the tension. It starts right from the beginning when Strickland walks into the office asking for their firms representation. The play is full of "niggard this", "white boy that" and even a Jew comment thrown in for good luck. Somehow it makes you feel as though Memet must've grown up as a black-and-white person. He cuts to the matter of race relations pretty quickly. See Jack Strickland, is accused of raping a black whore. Ouch, talk about fireworks, waiting to happen.
 
Susan with or without knowing, signed him up as a client while both Jack and Henry decide if they should take the case. And that's when the suspense, starts. Charles sits down and explained to them in a confessional type of way, what happened that night. All the way, Susan seems to be pretty skeptical of Charles. Henry is consistently pissed off at Susan for lying, and cheating. And Jack, who ain't no saint tries to make peace with everybody.
 
There should definitely be some nominations coming out of David's new play. If David Alan Grier is not nominated or James Spader things are definitely amiss with the Tony's nomination process. Kerry Washington was all right. She has a little bit ways to go on stage to be nominated. But for her Broadway debut. She was great, especially in the last scene. A downside was not seeing Richard Thomas enough. His character just didn't seem to have enough of a role, to make a real decision. But he did walk with his head held high throughout.
 
Because of the snappy dialogue, there's some real good zingers. And no race, profession or religion is exempt. It just seems that if this were real life between people things might never get solved. Memet, must have a pretty cynical outlook on race relations in the future. Broadway right now seems to have an influx of plays that deal with the same type of issues, whether it's Ragtime, Memphis, Superior Doughnuts, or a Steady Rain. But Race seems to have the hardest impact.
 
The best part to the play isn't the play. But the audience. It was a sold out show. Old, young, black, white, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and everybody else, all mixed in were seated. So it goes to show that really at the end of the day people are just people. We should all get along. Go see this play, if you get the chance. It's totally worth it.