Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt) stages the Broadway production, which played to acclaim in Los Angeles last June. Previews begin Sept. 29 at the Golden Theatre. Opening is Oct. 11.

Since its 1992 Off-Broadway premiere, Oleanna has done what theatre does best: spawn debate. The tempestuous drama focuses on the relationship between an intimidating university professor on the verge of obtaining tenure, and a timid female student who is having difficulty with the concepts in his classroom. Neither one are who or what they seem, and in the end, an act of sexual harassment may or may not occur. Oleanna is often described as Mamet's attack on political correctness.

Producers of Oleanna are taking advantage of the debate with the "Take a Side: The Oleanna Talk-Back Series," which will follow each preview performance through Oct. 10. The 20-30 minute post-performance discussions will host former New York City Mayor David Dinkins; as well as NYC Deputy Mayor of Education and Community Development Dennis Walcott; Fox News Channel legal analyst Lis Wiehl; discrimination and harassment attorney Anne C. Vladeck; Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts Mary Schmidt Campbell; "Lies My Mother Never Told Me" author Kaylie Jones; employment law firm partner Wayne N. Outten; harassment and dispute resolution attorney Kathleen M. McKenna; NYU professor Mitchell Moss; and NYU/Tisch associate arts professor Laurence Maslon.

Judith Kaye, JD (president of Judith Kaye Training & Consulting) and Cynthia Tornquist (president of Tornquist Productions LLC and former CNN correspondent) will moderate the discussions that launch Sept. 29 with Fox News Channel's Lis Wiehl.

The Broadway production of Oleanna features the L.A. creative team, including scenic designer Neil Patel, costume designer Catherine Zuber, lighting designer Donald Holder and fight director Rick Sordelet.

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Pullman (who plays John) returns to the Broadway stage for the first time since he received a 2002 Drama Desk Award nomination starring opposite Mercedes Ruehl in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? His other recent stage work includes a second Drama Desk nomination for his appearance in Albee's Peter and Jerry in 2007 at Second Stage and the 2006 Kennedy Center production of The Subject Was Roses (Helen Hayes Award nomination). His films include "Independence Day," "Lost Highway," "Sleepless in Seattle," "Ruthless People," "While You Were Sleeping" and more.

Stiles (who plays Carol) earned acclaim for her performance in a previous production of Oleanna in London's West End in 2004 opposite Aaron Eckhart. Her additional stage credits include the 2002 Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night as Viola, James Lapine's Fran's Bed at Playwrights Horizons and The Vagina Monologues. Oleanna will mark her Broadway debut. She made her cinematic debut at age 15 in "I Love You, I Love You Not" with Claire Danes. Her movies include "10 Things I Hate About You"; "Save the Last Dance"; "Mona Lisa Smiles"; two David Mamet films, "State and Main" and "Edmond"; and the three Bourne movies, "The Bourne Identity," "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Mamet is the award-winning author of many 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, November, Speed-the-Plow and The Cryptogram. He has penned the screenplays for such films as "The Verdict," "The Untouchables," "Wag the Dog" and his own adaptation of "Oleanna." He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. He has written and directed ten films including "Homicide," "The Spanish Prisoner," "State and Main," "House of Games," "Spartan" and "Redbelt."