Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles Star in David Mamet’s Provocative Drama at the Mark Taper Forum May 28 – July 12
Rehearsals have begun for David Mamet’s Oleanna, which begins previews May 28 and continues through July 12 at the Mark Taper Forum (opening night is Friday, June 5). Oleanna stars Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles under the direction of Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes.
Oleanna tells the gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor (Pullman) and one of his female students (Stiles).
With an expansive career in stage, film and television, Bill Pullman is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Independence Day, Lost Highway, Sleepless in Seattle, Ruthless People, While You Were Sleeping, The Grudge, Spaceballs, Scary Movie 4 and the recent Bottle Shock and Noble Son. On stage, Pullman received a 2002 Drama Desk Award nomination when he starred opposite Mercedes Ruehl in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? on Broadway, and a second Drama Desk nomination for his appearance in Albee’s Peter and Jerry in 2007 at Second Stage in New York. He was also nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for the 2006 Kennedy Center production of The Subject Was Roses.
Julia Stiles earned rave reviews in a previous production of Oleanna in London’s West End in 2004. She began her career in the theatre at a young age in New York City and her additional stage credits include the 2002 Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night (Viola), James Lapine’s Fran’s Bed at Playwrights Horizons and The Vagina Monologues. She made her cinematic debut at age 15 in I Love You, I Love You Not with Claire Danes. She followed this with many films, most notably, 10 Things I Hate About You, Save the Last Dance, Mona Lisa Smile, two David Mamet films – State and Main and Edmond, and all three films of the Bourne franchise.
David Mamet is the author of numerous plays including Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), American Buffalo, Boston Marriage, Romance (which was presented at the Taper in 2005), Keep Your Pantheon and The Duck Variations (presented at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2008 as Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet), November, and Speed-The-Plow. He has written the screenplays for such films as The Verdict, The Untouchables and Wag the Dog, and is a two-time Academy Award nominee. He has written and directed 10 films including Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House of Games, Spartan and Redbelt. He is co-creator and executive producer of the CBS television series The Unit, and is a Founding Member of The Atlantic Theater Company.
Doug Hughes won the 2005 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel and Callaway Awards for his direction of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt. His other Broadway credits include A Man for All Seasons, Mauritius, and Inherit the Wind (Tony nomination). His many off-Broadway productions include The Grey One (Obie Award), Flesh and Blood (Callaway Award), Farragut North, Howard Katz and The Paris Letter, and he has also directed numerous productions for most of the nation's leading theatre companies. He is the resident director of New York's Roundabout Theatre Company and in 2005 he won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
Tickets for Oleanna start at $20 and are available by calling (213) 628-2772 or online at http://www.centertheatregroup.org or in person at the CTG box office located at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center.
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