It's Opening Night for Alan Rickman & Co. in Broadway's Seminar

News By Broadway.com Staff November 20, 2011 - 12:33AM

Hamish Linklater, Alan Rickman, Jerry O'Connell, Lily Rabe & Hettienne Park in 'Seminar'

'Seminar' bows on Broadway on November 20.

It’s opening night for Seminar, Theresa Rebeck’s biting new comedy starring Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe, Jerry O’Connell, Hamish Linklater and Hettienne Park. Directed by Sam Gold, the play makes its official Broadway bow on November 20 at the Golden Theatre.

Rickman leads the cast as a celebrated novelist who passes judgment on the work of four students who have signed on for a pricey private seminar. Not surprisingly, the opening night crowd for Seminar is expected to include many stars of Smash, the forthcoming NBC series created by Rebeck: Anjelica Huston, Katharine McPhee, Debra Messing, Will Chase, Megan Hilty, Christian Borle and more.

Get tickets now to see Alan Rickman command the stage in a new American play.

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A Seminar in Biting Comedy With Alan Rickman, Jerry O'Connell, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater

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Obie winner Sam Gold directs Tony nominees Alan Rickman and Lily Rabe, Broadway newcomers Jerry O'Connell and Hettienne Park, and Drama Desk nominee Hamish Linklater in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's dark comedy Seminar. Rickman plays Leonard, a world famous literary figure who agrees to tutor several young writers struggling for success. As the course progresses and Leonard deems some students more worthy than others, sparks fly and tensions come to a head.

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ALAN RICKMAN COMING TO BROADWAY THIS FALL

September 16, 2011, 11:38 am

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.