David Mamet is turning to politics for his next play, slated to open on Broadway this fall. Mamet’s last overtly political work was the screenplay for the popular 1997 movie Wag the Dog. The new play “is a contemporary comedy about a president named Charles Smith and is set a few days before the election, in which he is running as an incumbent. The action unfolds over one day and involves, according to a synopsis provided by the producers, ‘civil marriage, gambling casinos, lesbians, American Indians, presidential libraries, questionable pardons and campaign contributions.'”