American Buffalo is written by David Mamet and directed by Clay Hopper. In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the oafish junk shop owner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams. (Concord Theatricals)

Boston University School of Theatre presents the Senior Theatre Arts Majors’ Projects. These capstone events are sprinkled throughout the spring semester and bloom in many different guises.

Tickets free, general admission at the door.