"A PRIZE FIGHT! You can’t argue with a play that retains the power to get theatergoers arguing with each other as they head home. OLEANNA hasn’t lost its power to rile an audience. "

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"OLEANNA PACKS A KNOCKDOWN PUNCH! Doug Hughes has directed this production with an ENTHRALLING combination of force and subtlety. What is most IMPRESSIVE is that the actors give both characters their due: Bill Pullman is so tightly wound that he all but quivers, while Julia Stiles appears to have strolled directly into the theater from the nearest classroom. It’s a welcome opportunity to see a pair of unusually fine performers at the top of their game."

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"BRILLIANT ACTING and Doug Hughes’ canny helming fully animate David Mamet’s GALVANIC play. Stiles is SUPERB, achieving increasing majesty with each uppercut. Pullman is a REVELATION. His horrified stagger is ONE OF THE SPELLBINDING EMOTIONAL EXHIBITIONS OF THIS THEATRICAL YEAR."

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"STARTLING! A POWERFUL PRODUCTION!  It’s rare for a play that seemed highly pertinent and PROVOCATIVE in its time to feel EVEN MORE GALVANIZING nearly two decades later. Director Doug Hughes and TWO CONSUMATE ACTORS provide a FRESH AND MESMERIZING take on this seminal Mamet work.  Bill Pullman masterfully depicts John’s slowly emerging horror as he realizes the trap he has unwittingly set for himself, and Julia Stiles gives an intelligently layered portrayal of vulnerability intermingled with the savage instincts of a caged tiger."

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"DYNAMITE THEATER! It’s nearly impossible not to take sides in this INFLAMMATORY play, then to think about why you took the side you took. 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. A SUPERB production!"