Mamet's Oleanna Returns to Broadway

David Mamet's Oleanna, starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, begins previews at Broadway's John Golden Theatre. The production, directed by Doug Hughes, received rave reviews at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles this summer.

The story of an explosive emotional power struggle between a female college student and her fortysomething professor, Oleanna premiered in 1992 at the Back Bay Theater Company in Cambridge, MA, directed by Mamet and starring Rebecca Pidgeon (the playwright’s wife) and quintessential Mamet man William H. Macy (who stepped in for Jeremy Piven last season in Broadway’s Speed-the-Plow). A few months later Oleanna moved to off-Broadway’s Orpheum Theatre, where it ran for more than 15 months. A Mamet-helmed 1994 film, with Macy and Debra Eisenstadt, was less successful.