Article: He's not acting his age // Mamet's play shows off talent of local 11-yr.-old

"The Cryptogram" Through July 21

Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted Tickets, $14.50-$19.50 (312) 335-1650

The man for Mamet just celebrated his 11th birthday.

And within days of graduating from fifth grade at the Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Zaks Lubin made his professional stage debut in the superb Steppenwolf Studio Theatre production of David Mamet's "The Cryptogram."

Lubin plays an eerie role, and a formidable one, as the child who realizes that his parents are about to divorce and that his life will be forever altered. He carries off the emotional complexities, as well the brain-twisting Mamet locutions, with the kind of aplomb that suggests he is more than just ...

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