THEATER TALK to Remember Alan Rickman This Weekend

THEATER TALK remembers actor Alan Rickman -- who died this week at age 69 -- with CUNY TV rebroadcasts of a 2012 interview about Theresa Rebeck's play SEMINAR, in which the actor starred at the Golden Theatre.

Rickman is on the joined on the program by writer Rebeck and two of his co-stars, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater.

In the play, Rickman portrayed a demanding writing teacher, with Rabe and Linklater as two of his pupils. Critics debated whether his character seemed more sadistic or tragic. Rickman stated, "Theresa's written an 18th-century comedy, with all those difficulties of language. It requires enormous concentration ... Theater is like a religion - you become aware of what a responsibility it is. It's getting tougher."

SEMINAR marked Rickman's final Broadway appearance.

Co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and Susan Haskins, the Alan Rickman edition of THEATER TALK will be rebroadcast on CUNY TV at special times: Friday, January 15 (2016) at 8 PM; Saturday 1/16 at 5:30 PM and Sunday 1/17 at 3:30 PM on CUNY TV. The station is broadcast on digital Ch. 25.3 in the New York metro area, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and Cablevision Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN) and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS).

THEATER TALK is jointly produced by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The program is taped in the Himan Brown TV and Radio Studios at The City University of New York (CUNY) TV in Manhattan, and is distributed to 100+ participating public television stations nationwide. THEATER TALK is made possible in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The CUNY TV Foundation, and The Friends of THEATER TALK.