Designer Scott Pask creates ‘a beautiful mess’ on Broadway


              Set designer Scott Pask appears on the set of the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York on June 1, 2022. Pask is a Broadway design veteran who has created sets for such hit shows as “Mean Girls,” “Waitress,” “9 to 5,” “The Band's Visit” and “Something Rotten!” He has won Tonys for “The Pillowman,” “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Book of Mormon.” (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
            
              Items decorate the set of the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” by set designer Scott Pask, at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York on June 1, 2022. Pask is a Broadway design veteran who has created sets for such hit shows as “Mean Girls,” “Waitress,” “9 to 5,” “The Band's Visit” and “Something Rotten!” He has won Tonys for “The Pillowman,” “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Book of Mormon.” (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
            
              Set designer Scott Pask appears on the set of the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York on June 1, 2022. Pask is a Broadway design veteran who has created sets for such hit shows as “Mean Girls,” “Waitress,” “9 to 5,” “The Band's Visit” and “Something Rotten!” He has won Tonys for “The Pillowman,” “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Book of Mormon.” (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
            
              Items decorate the set of the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” by set designer Scott Pask, at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York on June 1, 2022. Pask is a Broadway design veteran who has created sets for such hit shows as “Mean Girls,” “Waitress,” “9 to 5,” “The Band's Visit” and “Something Rotten!” He has won Tonys for “The Pillowman,” “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Book of Mormon.” (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
            
              Items decorate the set of the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” by set designer Scott Pask, at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York on June 1, 2022. Pask is a Broadway design veteran who has created sets for such hit shows as “Mean Girls,” “Waitress,” “9 to 5,” “The Band's Visit” and “Something Rotten!” He has won Tonys for “The Pillowman,” “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Book of Mormon.” (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
            
              This image released by Polk & Co. shows Sam Rockwell, left, and Laurence Fishburne during a performance of "American Buffalo." (Richard Termine/Polk & Co. via AP)