Jerry O’Connell Coming to Broadway in Theresa Rebeck Comedy
By PATRICK HEALY
The television and film actor Jerry O’Connell (“Sliders,” “Jerry Maguire”) will make his Broadway debut this fall as a self-satisfied young writer in Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy, “Seminar,” which stars Alan Rickman as a no-holds-barred writing teacher.
The producers also announced on Friday that Hettienne Park would play another budding author, one who brings a charged-up libido to class; Ms. Park played a supporting role in Tony Kushner’s recent play at the Public Theater, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures.” Mr. Rickman, along with Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, had already been cast in the production, which Sam Gold (“Circle Mirror Transformation”) will direct. Preview performances are scheduled to begin Oct. 27 at the Golden Theater, with an opening night of Nov. 20.
Off Broadway, Alice Ripley will return to New York theater this fall for the first time since her Tony Award-winning performance in the 2009 Broadway musical “Next to Normal,” once more playing a mother in the Off Broadway production of “Wild Animals You Should Know,” MCC Theater announced on Friday. The play, by Thomas Higgins, centers on an erotically charged relationship between Boy Scouts played by Jay Armstrong Johnson (“Pool Boy” at Barrington Stage) and Gideon Glick (“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” “Speech and Debate”), who go to a wilderness scout camp where their cat-and-mouse games intensify.
Patrick Breen (“The Normal Heart”) plays the father of one of the boys and the husband of Ms. Ripley’s character. Directed by Trip Cullman (“Bachelorette”), the play also includes John Behlmann and Daniel Stewart Sherman in the cast. The production, which is Mr. Higgins’s Off Broadway debut, begins previews at the Lucille Lortel Theater on Nov. 3 and also opens on Nov. 20.
The producers also announced on Friday that Hettienne Park would play another budding author, one who brings a charged-up libido to class; Ms. Park played a supporting role in Tony Kushner’s recent play at the Public Theater, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures.” Mr. Rickman, along with Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, had already been cast in the production, which Sam Gold (“Circle Mirror Transformation”) will direct. Preview performances are scheduled to begin Oct. 27 at the Golden Theater, with an opening night of Nov. 20.
Off Broadway, Alice Ripley will return to New York theater this fall for the first time since her Tony Award-winning performance in the 2009 Broadway musical “Next to Normal,” once more playing a mother in the Off Broadway production of “Wild Animals You Should Know,” MCC Theater announced on Friday. The play, by Thomas Higgins, centers on an erotically charged relationship between Boy Scouts played by Jay Armstrong Johnson (“Pool Boy” at Barrington Stage) and Gideon Glick (“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” “Speech and Debate”), who go to a wilderness scout camp where their cat-and-mouse games intensify.
Patrick Breen (“The Normal Heart”) plays the father of one of the boys and the husband of Ms. Ripley’s character. Directed by Trip Cullman (“Bachelorette”), the play also includes John Behlmann and Daniel Stewart Sherman in the cast. The production, which is Mr. Higgins’s Off Broadway debut, begins previews at the Lucille Lortel Theater on Nov. 3 and also opens on Nov. 20.
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