Plays set in Los Angeles

1981 play by Sam Shepard

1955 play by George Axelrod

Speed-the-Plow is a 1988 play by David Mamet that is a satirical dissection of the American movie business. As stated in ''The Producer's Perspective, "this is a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog (1997) and State and Main (2000)". As quoted in The Producer's Perspective, Jack Kroll of Newsweek described Speed-the-Plow'' as "another tone poem by our nation's foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy."