{"id":10458,"date":"2015-04-28T07:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:23","slug":"seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10458","title":{"rendered":"Broadway hit \u2018Seminar\u2019 joins PlayMakers\u2019 2015-2016 lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSeminar\u201d by Theresa Rebeck has joined the 2015-2016 main-stage season for PlayMakers Repertory Company. The hit Broadway play will be presented Oct. 14-Nov. 1, replacing \u201cDear Elizabeth\u201d due to conflicts in guest artist schedules.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeminar\u201d is a wickedly funny story of blood, sweat and tears in the writer\u2019s den. Four aspiring young writers ante up big bucks to learn from a legendary novelist, but their fiction and their egos will be unsparingly dissected before he\u2019s through. Ferocious and fast-paced with sparkling wordplay, \u201cSeminar\u201d takes no prisoners.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers acting company favorite Ray Dooley will play the novelist leading a no-holds-barred master class on power, sex and the nature of art. Recently seen as Puck in PlayMakers\u2019 \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d (\u201cspectacular\u201d raved The Herald-Sun), Dooley also scored kudos as George in the theater\u2019s production of \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,\u201d another standout performance delivered with withering wit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to include Theresa Rebeck in PlayMakers\u2019 new season,\u201d said producing artistic director Joseph Haj. \u201c\u2018Seminar\u2019 is a brilliant comedy that explores the creative process and the mystery and fallacy of some of our heroes. I know it will be an incredible addition to the 2015-16 lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Chronicle hailed \u201cSeminar\u201d as \u201cfuriously funny,\u201d and The Hollywood Reporter praised the show\u2019s wit and \u201cjuicy verbal showstoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for \u201cSeminar\u201d are available as part of the theater\u2019s 2015-2016 season subscription packages. Renewing subscribers can secure their current seats for the new season through May 15. For more information, call the PlayMakers box office at (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, PlayMakers is the professional theater company in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers\u2019 current season concludes with \u201cMary\u2019s Wedding\u201d by Stephen Massicotte (April 29-May 3).<\/p>\n

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