REVIEW: Alan Rickman leads a so-what ‘Seminar’
Jerry O’Connell and Lily Rabe portray would-be writers in Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
BROADWAY REVIEW
Seemingly tailored to fit Alan Rickman’s sardonic charms, “Seminar” may suit the actor very well but the material itself is flimsy stuff.
The actor’s fans no doubt will be pleased to see the ever-sonorous Rickman dominate the new play that opened recently at the Golden Theatre. Everybody else is likely to find “Seminar” an unenlightening session with a somewhat tiresome curmudgeon.
Rickman portrays the disdainful Leonard, a once-eminent writer since reduced to teaching composition seminars at $5,000 per student. In a series of brief scenes following several weeks of class, Leonard is depicted as brutally criticizing his four students’ works and potential even as they rebel, despair or otherwise writhe under his verbal lashings.
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