On Sunday, November 20, the Broadway production of Teresa Rebeck's Seminar opened at the Golden Theatre with Sam Gold at the helm. Opening night guests included Kim Cattrall, Christine…
This is not Six Characters in Search of an Author. This is more Four Authors in Search of a Character. Four people in their 20's or 30's are assembled and waiting, waiting for thei writing…
It takes a brave (or foolish) young writer to entrust his work to the judgment of fearsome literary lion Leonard—especially since Leonard is played by stage-and-screen great Alan Rickm…
It takes a brave (or foolish) young writer to entrust his work to the judgment of fearsome literary lion Leonard—especially since Leonard is played by stage-and-screen great Alan Rickm…
Broadway welcomed a new comedy to its fold with the November 20 opening of "Seminar" at the John Golden Theatre. The Theresa Rebeck play is a limited engagement, running only through March 4…
Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, opened on …
Two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman is making his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, a new comedy by P…
NEW YORK - There are terrible moments of silence in Theresa Rebeck's new Broadway play. No, not to worry: None...
With his patented blend of velvety nastiness, Alan Rickman is ideally cast as a noxious instructor savaging young writers in Theresa Rebeck's tangy but sometimes contrived comedy "Seminar," …
Not many other current US playwrights could take the subject here " a class in fiction-writing " and craft a comedy that sustains our interest
Two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman is making his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, a new comedy by P…
Like most seminars there are peaks and valleys, highlights and low spots, moments of boredom, moments of ecstasy and moments that are difficult to hear as exemplified in the new play SEMINAR…
Two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman is making his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, a new comedy by …
In the opening minutes of Theresa Rebeck’s new play, four young students nervously await the arrival of a famous novelist who they’ve hired to conduct a series of private seminar…
It's not fun to watch people's dreams be stomped on in real life; but for some reason, it's a heck of a lot of fun to see it done on stage. This is entirely true of Theresa Rebeck's new play…
You won't fall asleep at this sleeper hit of the season.
Alan Rickman is the go-to actor for supercilious. Over the years, in screen roles as various as the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” Colonel Brandon in …
There are teachers who gently coax their charges. And then there's Leonard, the brilliant editor who runs the titular fiction workshop in Theresa Rebeck's new Broadway comedy "Seminar." His …
"Seminar," a new comedy by Theresa Rebeck, concerns aspiring novelists who sign up for classes with a celebrated fiction guru, played by the droll Alan Rickman.
I attended a special Blogger night at "Seminar" on Broadway. A truly wonderful evening with a special talkback with the one and only Jerry O'Connell! Check it out...
A wonderful cast of four young very skilled actors is led by Alan Rickman in Theresa Rebeck's new dark comedy about writers, according to Toby Zinman.
A terrific cast, led by Alan Rickman, overcomes the limits of the writing within Theresa Rebeck's engaging but contrived new Broadway play.
With copy editing jobs disappearing with other publishing jobs, writers wanting a sharp eye cast on their fledgling literary efforts may well need an expensive private teacher like the one i…
Douglas (Jerry O'Connell) is a slick, Yaddo-referencing, New Yorker-ready writer; the smug sort of guy who likes to talk about the so-called "interiority and exteriority" of his peers. Izzy …
Alan Rickman teaches us our A-B-Cs in this sassy new comedy.