This production, enjoying a run extended to May 20, was first mounted earlier this year at London's Donmar Warehouse. The return of Hall and Macy to the New York stage, after several years of film work (often together the two have shared the screen in five movies since 1996), has smashed attendance records at Atlantic, founded by Mamet and Macy, and in the midst of a 15th anniversary season dedicated to the playwright's work. Macy), continually lose focus on the matter at hand. His larcenous designs on a customer's coin collection run aground as his partners in would-be crime, addled young Bobby (Mark Webber) and combustibly cranky Teach (William H. Under the direction of Neil Pepe, Hall plays Donny, the smallest of small businessmen, in the play. But I'm happy to finally get the chance to keep this ball in the air - David is just a master at mood and language, and the constant challenge for us is to find the people inside the cadences and rhythms and bring them out onstage." Otherwise, I might have done it a long time ago. (the Los Angeles Actors Theatre, now the Los Angeles Theatre Center) tried to get the rights to it, but it was too hot and we couldn't. "Shortly after American Buffalo came out, in 1975, the group I belonged to in L.A. "I've never done one before, and felt deprived," he muses. Though Hall seems entirely at home in the play's seedy setting as the lights come up, this is his first stab at Mamet, the main reason he accepted the part. Maybe, I thought, it would not be such a great move to shoot another 11 this year, as I did last year, and see my whole career end - bang! - due to overexposure," he says, with a gravelly laugh. "For years I did only a few films, then came this boom I have five more movies due out, and thought I should cool it for a while. He's taking a breather in the playwright's junkshop, though performing this piece, with its rat-tat-tat dialogue and sudden bursts of physical violence, is hardly a working vacation. Which is part of the reason why he opens tonight, at The Atlantic Theater Company, in its revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo. If you go to the movies with any frequency, recently you may have seen him more than your closest relatives: this past Christmas, he turned up in no less than four films, "Cradle Will Rock," "The Insider," "Magnolia," and "The Talented Mr. His rumpled features and shoe-leather voice may not suit him for romantic leads, but at age 68, the rough-hewn performer is one of Hollywood's hottest properties in the character actor division. If a burlap bag could talk, it would probably sound like Philip Baker Hall. Philip Baker Hall, Mark Webber and William H.
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