Alan Rickman Will Take Part in The Flea's 2012-13 Season; Hamish Linklater's The Vandal Among Lineup By Michael Gioia 25 Jul 2012 (PLAYBILL)

The Flea Theater, under artistic director Jim Simpson and producing director Carol Ostrow, announced the lineup for its 2012-13 Off Off-Broadway season. Tony Award nominee Alan Rickman will star in the company's premiere of Krapp Hour.

Krapp Hour, an adaptation of Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape by Canadian poet Anne Carson, will premiere in late August. Rickman (Seminar) will star as Krapp in the production, which is a part of the Virtual Theater Collaborative, the NEA funding initiative — a partnering of video game technology and professional theatre productions to create a new medium for the performing arts. Rickman's live performance at the Flea will be adapted for use in a video game.

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Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver Set for THE VANDAL Benefit Reading, 4/3 (BROADWAY WORLD.COM)

The Flea Theater will present a reading of Hamish Linklater’s The Vandal, April 3, at The Museum of Jewish Heritage starring Golden Globe winners Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Outer Critics Circle nominee Noah Robbins with direction by Flea’s Artistic Director Jim Simpson.

The Vandal is set on a frozen night in Kingston, New York, where a woman (Weaver) who's lost everything tags her name on Death's door. Linklater, currently starring in Broadway’s Seminar, is excited to be presenting his this work with The Flea.

He explains, “the play is about how we live and the stories we tell ourselves when we’re haunted by the people we’ve loved and lost.” All proceeds from this event will go to The Flea Theater, now entering its 17th year.

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