Seminar at Round House Theatre

Seminar

Round House Theatre
4545 East-West Highway Bethesda

There's no such thing as an "easy A" in this class! Writing turns into a contact sport in the fast, funny, and smart new comedy by Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck. Four aspiring young novelists sign up for private classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon, and hearts are unmoored. They came for a class in writing but got a lesson in survival. Laughter abounds in this hit from Broadway's most-produced female playwright.

Thru - Mar 2, 2014

Tuesdays: 7:30pm

Wednesdays: 7:30pm

Thursdays: 7:30pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 3:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Price: $50

Show Type: Comedy

Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes, no intermission

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

"...There is a glossy prize to be snatched, in other words - though which stylish arrangement of words will punch someone's ticket is the mystery. Or is it? Why write? Rebeck had been through the wars even before the roller coaster of "Smash," and for all its zippy punch lines and romantic low blows, a great deal of "Seminar" rings true."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Floating windows at the top of the stage! That Is not, necessarily, the first thing you marvel at in the Round House Theatre's current and stimulating new play Seminar for, indeed, all the elements of a solid and professional production are vividly on display here in Theresa Rebeck's witty and absorbing play. Under the astute direction of Jerry Whiddon, the play moves briskly along at a ninety-minute stretch full of human pathos and moral relativity underneath the humor."

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- Joel Markowitz

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...Seminar is nothing like the kind of serious, character- and situation-driven art its people say they so desperately want to create, but as reasonably clever entertainment, it's effective enough."

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- Trey Graham

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...It's no secret that writers are a typically emotional lot left to brood and philosophize about the human condition. But there's more to writing than simply clacking away at a laptop for hours and hours upon end. Turns out, writing is a contact sport, or so it would seem in playwright Theresa Rebeck's, Seminar. Round House Theatre lends a savvy and energetic take on this pull-no-punches comedy about a group of quirky, confused and often confrontational artists."

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- Victoria Durham

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

You are here: Home / All Reviews / Our Reviews / Seminar has the write stuff Seminar has the write stuff February 13, 2014 by Jon Boughtin 1 Comment (Edit) Ray Bradbury said in his Zen in the Art of Writing that we must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy us. But the quote is the sentiment of a man for whom writing came easy – or at least who enjoyed a modicum of success. In Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, it’s writing itself that’s doing the destroying.

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- Jon Boughtin

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

Washington City Paper - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

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