The Broadway run of David Mamet’s Race, starring James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington and Richard Thomas, has been extended to Aug. 23 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

The playwright directed the world-premiere production that opened on Broadway Dec. 6 and was originally scheduled to close June 13. Producers announced April 21 that the production had recouped its entire $2.5 million investment.

According to producers, “three attorneys, two black and one white, are offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman.”

Mamet elaborated on the plot in an interview with the New York Times. “In my play a firm made up of three lawyers, two black and one white, is offered the chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black young woman. It is a play about lies. All drama is about lies. When the lie is exposed, the play is over.”

From Playbill