Haley Joel Osment, who as a young actor earned an Academy Award nomination for The Sixth Sense, heads to Broadway this fall in David Mamet's American Buffalo.
It's a Broadway debut for Osment, 20, who also appeared in A.I., Secondhand Lion and Forrest Gump.
American Buffalo, which helped establish Mamet's reputation when it opened on Broadway in 1977, is undergoing a revival to open Nov. 17 at the Belasco Theatre.
The original New York cast in 1977 included Robert Duvall, John Savage and Kenneth MacMillan.
The play centres on three thieves, talking in a Chicago pawn shop, shortly after a bungled heist.
Osment plays one of the three — the others are being played by John Leguizamo, a Colombian-born actor who has appeared in films such as Love in the Time of Cholera and Moulin Rouge and Cedric the Entertainer, a stand-up comedian who toured with the Kings of Comedy.
American Buffalo will be directed by Robert Falls of Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
With files from the Associated PressAlberta Theatre Projects artistic director stepping down
Alberta Theatre Projects artistic director Bob White has announced he will step down at the end of the 2008-09 season.
On Broadway, the show will go on, for now
Tense labour negotiations are hanging over Broadway this week, but all productions are expected to be staged as scheduled this weekend.
Bald volunteers needed to fill out gulag
On Monday, the COC put out its annual call for supernumeraries, the laymen who stand on stage to make up the crowd scenes in its operas.
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