Tickets for the first-ever Broadway production of David Mamet’s Oleanna, starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, areon sale to the general public.

Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt) directs the “gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students.”

Produced by Jeffrey Finn, the Broadway production will begin previews Sept. 29 toward an Oct. 11 opening at The Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th Street.

For tickets visit www.telecharge.com or call (212) 239-6200. Tickets range from $116.50 to $76.50.

Tickets will also be available for purchase in person at The Golden Theatre box office at a future date to be announced.

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The late 1990s saw a glut of mostly forgettable teen movies come and go at the multiplex, but 1999’s “10 Things I Hate About You” managed to stand out. Transplanting Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” to a modern-day high school setting, it launched the careers of Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. And while those other teen flicks gather dust, “10 Things” has been granted new life as a TV series, with the chance to grab a new generation of fans.

The plot of the half-hour comedy, premiering at 7 p.m. Tuesday on ABC Family, is essentially unchanged: Sisters Kat and Bianca adjust to life at Padua High while living under the microscope of their loving but intrusive dad, played by Larry Miller, the lone holdover from the film. Lindsey Shaw stars as Kat, a rebel determined to show people she doesn’t care what they think, while Meaghan Martin is Bianca, who never met a popular person whose rump she didn’t kiss. The two would be content to just stay out of each other’s way, but their father has imposed the Shakespearean rule that Bianca cannot start dating until her older sister does.

This seems like a bad turn for Bianca until Kat finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner named Patrick Verona (Ethan Peck), who seems equally taken with her. Shaw (“Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”) says that as Kat discovers new emotions within herself, she’s forced to re-examine her outlook on life.

“She runs into situations and people — especially with this boy — where she finds herself exposed more than she ever has been, and she realizes that those feelings that she never thought were there (are) surfacing,” Shaw says.

Calling herself a fan of the film, Shaw says she could always relate to Kat’s guardedness and the belief that she needed to put on a brave front. Slowly, she says, she has realized that revealing her vulnerability isn’t such a bad thing. On the flip side, she says co-star Martin (“Camp Rock”) is “an open book,” which makes her perfectly cast as Bianca.

Holding them together is Miller, who plays Walter Stratford much the same way he did in the film, as a single dad trying to come to grips with his daughters becoming young women.

“He’s a guy who just doesn’t understand why his life is changing,” Miller says. “He’s someone who cares deeply about his daughters, and he’s going to hold onto his life as rigidly as he can.”

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Check out the Wall Street Journal, Julia wrote about The New York Mets for their weekend section! It’s great to see her talent on paper as well as on the screen. She definitely knows how to get my attention.

I’ve finished converting the FKA Projects to wordpress, and the new section is up now and can be viewed under Career.

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The Website and Julia sections are also done

Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles are set to star in David Mamet’s Oleanna at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The show replaces the previously announced Uncle Vanya as the third production in the Taper’s 2009 season at the Los Angeles Music Center, due to casting complications. Previews for Oleanna start May 28, with opening night set for June 5. The production, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, will play through July 12.

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. He has appeared on Broadway opposite Mercedes Ruehl in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination. In 2007, he earned a second Drama Desk nomination for his appearance in Albee’s Peter and Jerry in 2007 at Second Stage. Pullman was also nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for the 2006 Kennedy Center production of The Subject Was Roses.

Stiles starred in Oleanna in London’s West End in 2004. Her additional stage credits include the 2002 Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, James Lapine’s Fran’s Bed at Playwrights Horizons and The Vagina Monologues off-Broadway. Her film credits include I Love You, I Love You Not, 10 Things I Hate About You, Save the Last Dance, Mona Lisa Smiles, two David Mamet films (State and Main, Edmond), as well as The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Oleanna is a gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students. Premiering in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992, it has since been produced in London and New York and was made into a movie in 1994, starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt.
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10 Things I Hate About You Coming To TV

The movie 10 Things I Hate About You is being turned into a TV show. ABC has picked up the half-hour pilot based on the film of the same name that starred Julia Stiles. It’s been written and exec produced by Carter Covington and revolves around two sisters — a strong-willed feminist and a social butterfly — facing the challenges of starting out in a new high school.

Ruby And The Rockits is also coming to the network, which is a comedy about a former teen idol whose quiet life is disrupted when his brother and former bandmate shows up with a newfound teenage daughter.

The ABC’s executive vice president, original series programming & development, Kate Juergens, stated, “We’re excited about these pilots and feel they’re perfect additions to our existing slate of programs.” She added, “These shows are headed by talented teams who clearly possess authentic voices which we believe will resonate with our millennial viewers.”
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The HIFF Premieres “Gospel Hill” Directed By Giancarlo Esposito

“Gospel Hill” a spotlight film being premiered during the HIFF, stars Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, Taylor Kitsch, Julia Stiles, and RZA. The first screening was held Thursday, Oct. 16, at the UA Theatre in East Hampton, and a second screening was held on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 9 p.m. in Southampton.

Directed by Giancarlo Esposito, with screenplay by Jeff Stacy, Jeffrey Pratt Gordon and Terrell Tannen, the 98-minute film concerns the struggling and long-brewing racial tensions of a small Southern town as a result of an unsolved 40-year-old murder. Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of an assassinated civil rights leader (Sam Jackson), who is being honored by the town 40 years after his still unsolved murder.

Concurrently with the upcoming event, Glover is withdrawn and distant from his wife (Angela Bassett) who is a teacher and community activist who attempts to engage her husband’s assistance to prevent developers from “invading” Gospel Hill in hopes of turning it into a golf course. The developers are aided by the local doctor (Giancarlo Esposito). Julia Stiles plays an idealistic school teacher who begins to fall for the son of the retired local bigoted sheriff who never solved the murder.

The past and present realities of life in the South (North Carolina) are all connected together among this cast as they individually struggle with making the right choices and decisions to atone for the past and hopefully amend the future. The personal relationships between a husband and wife, a father and his sons, a former law officer and an disabled war veteran, a doctor and his patients, and a community with its race and economic woes are all explored, but not necessarily resolved in this thoughtful film. The film is Esposito’s first film in the HIFF.

Speaking with Esposito prior to the screening, this well-known actor and director expressed, “This film has been a labor of love for me. It took me four years to make, and it was completed in 2007. I fell in love with the script, and I worked with the screenwriters, and acted as producer as well to bring this personally compelling and timely film to the screen.” Commenting on the dual roles he assumes in “Gospel Hill” as both director and actor, Esposito relayed, “As an actor I am comfortable with the egos of actors, and as a director I was thrilled with the script. I was fortunate enough to work with a stellar cast of actors.” Having acted with both Samuel L. Jackson and Nia Long (who plays his wife) in prior films, Esposito also stated that “There is no comparison between actors and directors. I’ve been an actor for 43 years, and actors are narcissistic, however, as a director I can understand that, and it allows me to draw on that point of view.”

Esposito’s “Gospel Hill” once again illuminates how the past can always follow us into the future, and that the actions of one person can dramatically affect the lives of many.
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Bourne Supremacy actress Julia Stiles will soon be making her Broadway debut with the two-character play ‘Oleanna’. The American stage and screen actress first performed David Mamet’s play opposite Aaron Eckhart on London’s West End stage in 2004.

Stiles shall lead the role of Carol in the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students who accuses him of sexual harassment. “I’m coming to Broadway. I’m so excited… It’s where I started,” the Daily Express quoted the actress as telling the New York Post.

“I did shows off-Broadway. I did plays at La Mama. And I’m now going to do David Mamet’s Oleanna. The one project I most want to do. By the end of the play pretty much everyone hates me. But I only know this will be my first time on Broadway. It’s a dream of mine,” she added.
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In the town of Julia, a town set in the South, the residents of the neighborhood of Gospel Hill are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar development.

Gospel Hill, a film by Giancarlo Esposito, and starring Giancarlo Esposito, Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, Taylor Kitsch, Samuel L. Jackson, Nia Long and the Rza to be screened at the Democratic National Convention. A-List stars to be in attendance, including key political figures at the red carpet screening Sunday, August 24th.

Quiet Hand Productions is thrilled to announce the screening of Gospel Hill at the Democratic National Convention. The film will enjoy two screenings on Sunday evening at 7:30 and 10:00 pm at the Neighborhood Flix Cinema and Cafe — 2510 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colo. Angela Bassett, Danny Glover, the Rza, Taylor Kitsch, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty and several other celebrities will be in attendance for the screening.

About Gospel Hill:
In the town of Julia, a town set in the South, the residents of the neighborhood of Gospel Hill are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar development. Race relations are strained just as they were thirty years ago when Peter Malcolm (Samuel Jackson), a black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Dr. Ron Palmer (Giancarlo Esposito), an influential black community leader who runs the emergency clinic in Gospel Hill, is supporting the development through the prism of his own vision of success, while simultaneously being responsible for driving people from their homes they have lived in for generations. Peter Malcolm’s brother, John Malcolm (Danny Glover), who withdrew from the community and the fight for civil rights after his brother’s assassination, is haunted by the pain of what happened, and has given up the fight.

Meanwhile, the towns bigoted, ex-sheriff, who was responsible for letting the investigation of Peter’s murder dissipate with no one charged, is facing his own mortality and his own choices and hatreds to reflect on. Sarah Malcolm (Angela Bassett), Johns wife, takes it upon herself to battle Dr. Palmer and reveal his profiteering to the whole town, exposing him for the greedy man he has become.

These characters lives intertwine to create a gripping, revealing and dramatic tale touching on issues or race, imminent domain, and the power of the human spirit to overcome the pain and hatred of division.

For more information about the film or Quiet Hand Productions, please contact us at gospelhillfilm@yahoo.com
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