The marvelous English actor Alan Rickman, best known to the world as Professor Snape in the "Harry Potter" movies, will be back on Broadway for the first time in nine years this fall. He will play another teacher in "Seminar," a new biting comedy written by prolific dramatist Theresa Rebeck.
According to Playbill.com, Rickman will portray a brilliant and unpredictable international literary legend leading a private seminar for four young writers. "Sex is used as a weapon, alliances are made and broken, and it's not just the wordplay that turns vicious..."
Rickman's 1987 performance in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," another play of sexual treachery, is one of my most delicious Broadway experiences. Here is the entire Playbill.com story.
Damien has been around so long, he was at Summerfest the night George Carlin was arrested for speaking the seven dirty words you can't say on TV. He was also at the Uptown Theatre the night Bruce Springsteen's first Milwaukee concert was interrupted for three hours by a bomb scare. Damien was reviewing the concert for the Milwaukee Journal. He wrote for the Journal and Journal Sentinel for 37 years, the last 29 as theater critic.
During those years, Damien served two terms on the board of the American Theatre Critics Association, a term on the board of the association's foundation, and he studied the Latinization of American culture in a University of Southern California fellowship program. Damien also hosted his own arts radio program, "Milwaukee Presents with Damien Jaques," on WHAD for eight years.
Travel, books and, not surprisingly, theater top the list of Damien's interests. A news junkie, he is particularly plugged into politics and international affairs, but he also closely follows the Brewers, Packers and Marquette baskeball. Damien lives downtown, within easy walking distance of most of the theaters he attends.
