This edition: "Seminar" Writer and Cast
Episode Details
Original tape date: January 13, 2012.
First aired: February 18, 2012.
We discuss the new Broadway play, “Seminar,” with actors Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linklater, and the playwright Theresa Rebeck. The play, about an upscale writing seminar led by jaded professional author Rickman, and attended by ambitious aspiring writers (Linklater and Rabe), is a must-see for Rickman fans and for anyone who's ever aspired to accomplish anything in the arts. We also discuss Rebeck’s new TV series SMASH.
Guest List
- "Newsies," the musical based on the 1992 movie, with composer Alan Menken and librettist Harvey Fierstein
- Monday, May 21 - 7:30pm
- Tony Predictions 2012
- Saturday, May 26 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, May 27 - 12:30pm
- Monday, May 28 - 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
- tba
- Saturday, June 2 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, June 3 - 12:30pm
- Monday, June 4 - 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
- Saturday, June 9 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, June 10 - 12:30pm, 7:30pm
- "Newsies," the musical based on the 1992 movie, with composer Alan Menken and librettist Harvey Fierstein
- Saturday, May 19 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, May 20 - 12:30pm
- Monday, May 21 - 7:30am, 1:30pm
- Critics Review the Broadway Spring Season, 2012
- Saturday, May 12 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, May 13 - 12:30pm
- Monday, May 14 - 7:30am
- "One Man, Two Guvnors" with playwright Richard Bean, director Nicholas Hytner and star James Corden
- Saturday, May 5 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, May 6 - 12:30pm
- Monday, May 7 - 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
- "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" revisited
- Saturday, April 28 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 29 - 12:30pm
- Monday, April 30 - 1:30pm, 7:30pm
- Singer Marilyn Maye discusses her career in show business and performs some standards, accompanied at the piano by Don Rebic.
- Saturday, April 21 - 8:30pm
- Sunday, April 22 - 12:30pm
- Monday, April 23 - 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
