The play was previously revived on Broadway in 2008, starring Laura Linney and Ben Daniels. Numerous other screen versions have followed, including the contemporary teen update, Cruel Intentions. Stephen Frears directed the 1988 film adaptation, retitled Dangerous Liaisons, which starred Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. Those roles were originally played in the celebrated Royal Shakespeare Company premiere in 1985 by Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in a production that moved from Stratford-upon-Avon to London’s West End and from there to Broadway. 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses': Theater Review Arielle Tepper Madover will produce the transfer, continuing a relationship with the Donmar that yielded the 2010 Tony winner for best play, Red. The production will play a 15-week limited engagement at the Booth Theatre, with previews beginning Oct. McTeer starred in that incarnation opposite Dominic West, whose role will be played by Schreiber on Broadway. Staged by Josie Rourke, the revival transfers to New York following a sellout run that ended earlier this year at London’s Donmar Warehouse, where Rourke is artistic director. Tony winners Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer will return to Broadway in the fall, playing the dueling rivals whose cruel games of sexual conquest have fatal consequences in Christopher Hampton’s drama, Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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