Les Liaisons Dangereuses Revival 2016
Run Time:
Two hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission
Two hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission
Ages: 13+
Opened: October 30, 2016Closing: January 08, 2017
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - 2016 Broadway History , Info & More
Booth Theatre (Broadway)
222 West 45th St. New York, NY
In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos' novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalized the world. Two hundred years later, in 1985, Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation became an award-winning sensation in London's West End and on Broadway, followed by the Academy Award-winning film Dangerous Liaisons.
Former lovers, La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont compete in games of seduction and revenge. These merciless aristocrats toy with the hearts and reputations of innocents. Merteuil incites Valmont to corrupt the convent-educated Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night but Valmont has other designs. His target is the peerlessly virtuous and happily married Madame de Tourvel.
Josie Rourke's acclaimed production transfers to Broadway after a sold-out engagement at London's Donmar Warehouse which ended earlier this year and starred Janet McTeer. The production was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Revival.
Tony Award winners Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber will return to Broadway this Fall in the Donmar Warehouse production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton, directed by the Donmar's Artistic Director Josie Rourke.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - 2016 - Broadway Cast
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'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' review: This revival is more lukewarm than sexy
6 / 10
Schreiber misses badly here, offering up a kind of Ray Donovan take on Valmont, brutish and creepy. He's less a bodice-ripping villain than the kind of guy who in modern times would be hanging around school playgrounds wearing a trench coat. Schreiber generates little in the way of chemistry with McTeer, and even less with the actresses who play his two conquests, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (HBO's 'Vinyl'), as the virtuous Madame de Tourvel, and Elena Kampouris ('My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2'), as the virginal Cecile. (On the night I saw the show, he also mangled a few of his lines.)
‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Broadway Review: Liev Schreiber, Janet McTeer Bring Old Blighty to France
6 / 10
In Liev Schreiber's eccentric performance, this audio disconnect provides one of the few pleasures in what is otherwise a lethargic production, one that originated at London's Donmar Warehouse under the direction of Josie Rourke. Schreiber sounds as if Laurence Oliver's tenor is fighting Richard Burton's baritone, with all of this disharmony emitting from the esteemed American actor's great granite face.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses History
Other Productions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses
| 1987 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2008 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
| 2015 | West End |
Donmar Warehouse Production West End |
| 2016 | Broadway |
Donmar Warehouse Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
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