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“BRILLIANT ACTING
and Doug Hughes canny helming fully animate David Mamet’s galvanic play. Stiles is superb…Pullman’s horrified stagger is one of the spellbinding emotional exhibitions of this theatrical year.”
- Bob Verini, Variety
“75 MINUTES OF DYNAMITE THEATER.
Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles are riveting together under Doug Hughes’ taut direction. Mamet’s…dialogue flies between the two characters like a shattered pane of glass, each fragment finding its mark and leaving a speck of blood.”
- Jay Reiner, The Hollywood Reporter
“…you can’t argue with a play that retains the power to get theatergoers arguing with each other as they head home.”
- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles star in Oleanna
The Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning writer of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow returns to Center Theatre Group with a new production of his gripping drama of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students.
Doug Hughes (Tony Award®, Doubt) directs, featuring film and stage stars Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Broadway’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum), who reprises her role, after performing to rave reviews on London’s West End.
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A CONVERSATION WITH THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Bill Pullman, Julia Stiles discuss Oleanna
When Doug Hughes, the director of the revival of David Mamet's "Oleanna," heard that his two stars, Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, were sitting down with a writer for the Los Angeles Times, he freaked out. "He said, 'Ohmigod!
More online at LATimes.com
More About the Show
Julia Stiles’ blog: The Morning After
Julia Stiles’ blog, in which she discusses beginning rehearsals of Oleanna
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Watch reaction to the opening night of Oleanna from actors and audience-members Chris Noth, Rose McGowan, Robert Loggia, and Jai Rodriguez, as well as interviews with Julia Stiles and Bill Pullman about the challenges in bringing this intense Mamet drama to the stage. |
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Click here to see director Doug Hughes ( Doubt) discuss the impact of David Mamet’s Oleanna, an intensely dramatic work on sexual harassment issues in academia. In this exclusive interview, Hughes tackles the major themes of the play and the relevance to today’s audience now witnessing the battle-of-the-sexes at the Mark Taper Forum. |
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Watch scenes from Oleanna |
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Click here to watch director Doug Hughes (Doubt) discuss the impact of David Mamet’s Oleanna, an intensely dramatic work on sexual harassment issues in academia. In this exclusive interview, Hughes tackles the major themes of the play and the relevance to today’s audience now witnessing the battle-of-the-sexes at the Mark Taper Forum.
On her blog, actress Julia Stiles reflects on Oleanna, just 2 days away from beginning in previews at the Mark Taper Forum, and about the always-jarring transition from New York to Los Angeles.
Actress Julia Stiles (The Bourne trilogy, State and Main, 10 Things I Hate About You) will soon be starring opposite Bill Pullman in David Mamet’s Oleanna at the Mark Taper Forum.
She recently blogged about the experience and about revisiting the challenging work after a successful run in London a few years ago.
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