Mamet’s first directorial work in nearly 20 years, shows that there’s still some life in his hard-edged characters.

‘Henry Johnson’ Pam Susemiehl As you mentioned, Dave isn’t someone who believes in actors doing the internal work to build out a character, but your approach is clearly different.

“Henry Johnson” is the film version of a Mamet play that premiered in Los Angeles in 2023 (it’s the first movie he has directed in 17 years), and for its first third, at least, it returns ...

Army Sgt. Henry Johnson’s heroics on the battlefield — wounded 21 times and under enemy fire — earned him international acclaim. He led his all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the ...

Henry Johnson was one of the United State’s first heroes of World War I and he was among the last to be recognized by his country. In Albany, Johnson’s story is legendary, retold over and over ...

Henry Johnson came to Albany as a teenager. A diminutive man who weighed only 130 pounds, he worked as a redcap porter at Albany's Union Station on Broadway, in a coal yard and as a soda mixer in ...