Photo Flash: Scintillating First Look at Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer in LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES on Broadway

By: Oct. 27, 2016
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The Broadway production of Donmar Warehouse's Les Liaisons Dangereuses is playing a limited engagement through Sunday, January 22, 2017 only at the Booth Theatre (222 W 45th St). BroadwayWorld has a scintillating first look at the cast onstage below!

The full company of Les Liaisons Dangereuses includes Janet McTeer as La Marquise de Merteuil and Liev Schreiber as Le Vicomte de Valmont, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Madame de Tourvel, Raffi Barsoumian as Le Chevalier Danceny, Ora Jones as Madame de Volanges, ELena Kampouris as Cécile Volanges, Katrina Cunningham as Émilie, Josh Salt as Azolan, Joy Franz as Victoire, David Patterson as Major-domo, Laura Sudduth as Julie and Mary Beth Peil as Madame de Rosemonde.

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.

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 starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. 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 received two Olivier Award nominations for Best Revival and Best Actress for Ms. McTeer.

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

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Janet McTeer (La Marquise de Merteuil) and Liev Schreiber (Le Vicomte de Valmont)

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Janet McTeer (La Marquise de Merteuil) and Liev Schreiber (Le Vicomte de Valmont)

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Liev Schreiber (Le Vicomte de Valmont) and Janet McTeer (La Marquise de Merteuil)

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Janet McTeer (La Marquise de Merteuil)

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Liev Schreiber (Le Vicomte de Valmont)

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Birgitte Hjort Sorensen (Madame de Tourvel) and Liev Schreiber (Le Vicomte de Valmont)

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Mary Beth Peil (Madame de Rosemonde) and Birgitte Hjort Sorensen (Madame de Tourvel)

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Liev Schreiber (Le Vicomte de Valmont) and ELena Kampouris (Cecile Volanges)



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