Artwork imitates life imitates artwork? “A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein,” a really meta stage present whose title references the fiery playwright and disgraced Hollywood producer, will stage a charity studying this summer season in New York Metropolis.

Written by Mathilde Dratwa (“Soiled Laundry”) and directed by “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland, the play can have its New York premiere on July 21 on the Judith O. Rubin Theater at Playwrights Horizons, as a studying to learn the New York Civil Liberties Union. The one-night-only occasion will characteristic Billy Eichner (“Billy on the Avenue”), Abbi Jacobson (“Broad Metropolis”), Heléne Yorke (“The Different Two”) and Kara Younger (“Goal”).

Although the identify just about says all of it, “A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein” is described within the official press launch as “precisely what it appears like — and in no way what it appears like: it’s about Mamet (who has, in actual life, written a play about Weinstein); it’s about manner too many dudes named David; however, at first, it’s about three ladies — every along with her personal causes to be fairly… indignant.”

It’s true that Mamet, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and screenwriter of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “The Anarchist,” “Home of Video games” and “Wag the Canine,” wrote a #MeToo-inspired stage present referred to as “Bitter Wheat” concerning the downfall of a Weinstein-esque movie mogul. John Malkovich starred within the manufacturing, which debuted on the West Finish in 2019 to dismal opinions, with Selection calling the play a “catastrophically misjudged, low cost and nasty satire.” (For what it’s value, Malkovich on the time predicted that “lots of people” would dislike just like the present, which he described as a “black farce.”)

Producers of “A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein” referred to as the present “audacious, shocking and transferring.”

“We have now been enamored with Mathilde’s audacious, shocking, and transferring play since we first learn it,” producers George Strus and Rachel Sussman mentioned in a joint assertion. “We’re thrilled to have assembled this stellar forged beneath Leslye Headland’s management to help the unceasing work of the NYCLU at this significant second.”