Tony Nominee Mary Beth Peil Set for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Starring Janet McTeer & Liev Schreiber

Tony nominee Mary Beth Peil will join Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which returns to the Great White Way on October 8 at the Booth Theatre; it is scheduled to open officially on October 30. She takes on the role of Madame de Rosemonde and joins Tony winners Janet McTeer, who is set to reprise the role of La Marquise de Merteuil and Liev Schreiber as Le Vicomte de Valmont. Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, helms the production, which will play a limited engagement through January 22, 2017.

Peil last appeared on Broadway opposite Chita Rivera in the Kander and Ebb’s The Visit. She earned a Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in The King and I opposite Yul Brynner. She is also well known for her performance as Jackie Florrick on the CBS drama The Good Wife.

Based on the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, the dark comedy follows former lovers, La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont as they 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.

Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman earned Tony nominations for the play's 1987 Broadway premiere. Glenn Close and John Malkovich headlined the 1988 movie version, renamed Dangerous Liaisons. The show was last revived on the Great White Way in 2008, starring Laura Linney and Ben Daniels.