Oleanna
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New York Post | 1 day ago
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...moments and tear-jerking schmaltz, and committed performers at the top of their game. Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. "OLEANNA": *** Think of it as David Mamet's version of a horror movie, with Julia Stiles' sociopathic...
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Talking cure for B'way ills
...of an old Mamet play that still has teeth (unlike, say, last season's deadly "American Buffalo"). One of the best things about "Oleanna" was the post-show discussions, the so-called "talk-backs," which have gotten quite popular on...
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L.A. Times - The Arts | 3 days ago
'Oleanna set to close on Broadway Jan. 3
Class soon will be dismissed for David Mamet's "Oleanna." The Broadway premiere of his 1992 play, starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, has posted a closing notice. Producers of the intense, two-person drama about sexual politics in a...
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Broadway revival of 'Oleanna' to close Jan. 3
NEW YORK (AP) ??? The Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Oleanna" is folding after a 97-performance run. Producer Jeffrey Finn says the production, which stars Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, will close Jan. 3 at the Golden Theatre. The...
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San Diego Union-Tribune | 4 days ago
Broadway revival of 'Oleanna' to close Jan. 3
Broadway revival of 'Oleanna' to close Jan. 3 Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:52 p.m. NEW YORK The Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Oleanna" is folding after a 97-performance run. Producer Jeffrey Finn says the production, which...
In this article: Julia Stiles, Bill Pullman, Mark Taper Forum, David Mamet, New York, and Los Angeles
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Tenure Ends: Broadway's Oleanna Will Close Jan. 3, 2010
Julia Stiles and Bill Pullman in Oleanna The Broadway run of David Mamet's Oleanna, the provocative college-set drama about a female student and her professor, will end Jan. 3, 2010, producer Jeffrey Finn announced on Nov. 17. The play...
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Oleanna is a two-character play by David Mamet about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students who accuses him of sexual harassment and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure. The play's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia.
The play premiered in May 1992 in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the first production of Mamet's new Back Bay Theater Company. The premiere featured William H. Macy as John, a "smug, pompous, insufferable man whose power over academic lives he unconsciously abuses". Rebecca Pidgeon played the female lead, Carol, "Mamet's most fully realized female character, ...a mousy, confused cipher" whose failure to comprehend concepts and precepts presented in John's class motivated her appeal for personal instruction. The part of Carol is said to have been written for Pidgeon.
In October, a year after the Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas hearings which "crystallized and concretized" Mamet's dramatization, it appeared off-Broadway at New York City's Orpheum Theatre, with Macy and Pidgeon reprising their roles. The production included a rewritten third scene. Critic Frank Rich provides a summary of the play in his review of the off-Broadway production: :The result? During the pause for breath that separates the two scenes of Mr. Mamet's no-holds-barred second act, the audience seemed to be squirming and hyperventilating en masse, so nervous was the laughter and the low rumble of chatter that wafted through the house. The ensuing denouement, which raised the drama's stakes still higher, does nothing to alter the impression that "Oleanna" is likely to provoke more arguments than any play this year.
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