Haley Joel Osment

The reviews of the opening of David Mamet's American Buffalo at the Belasco have been unenthusiastic. The critics almost unanimously describe poorly cast stars—John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer, and Haley Joel Osment—going through the motions with wooden dialogue. ("Ssssssssst. That whooshing noise coming from the Belasco Theater is the sound of the air being let out of David Mamet's dialogue," wrote Ben Brantlee in The New York Times.)

But signs that the play might lay an egg were already in evidence last Friday afternoon at Café Une Deux Trois, where a press lunch with the cast had been scheduled. Instead of excited actors ready to begin the new Broadway run of a perfectly timed critique of inflated valuation, a near empty restaurant, and a sheepish hostess greeted the Daily Transom.  read more »

You guys, Haley Joel Osment is 20 years old! 20! We'll always see him as the creepy kid who saw dead people in The Sixth Sense. God, we're old. Anyway, Mr. Osment is all grown up and making his Broadway debut in the revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, according to BroadwayWorld. At least he still has those rosey baby-faced cheeks! He joins John Lequizamo and Cedric the Entertainer was junk shop workers who scheme to steal a rich man's coin collection. The show opens Nov. 17 at the Belasco Theatre.