"Seminar" a play at the Ahmanson Theater Tuesday

Colleen and I saw the play "Seminar" staring Jeff Goldblum.  It is a comedy with disturbing elements...creative writers virtually prostituting themselves to get ahead.  Four writers pay a famous...infamous...writer $5,000 a piece to tutor them in writing.  Leonard, Jeff Goldblum, a burned-out writer, manipulates his students using what the N.Y. critic called "verbal flatulence" with each of the students attempting to impress...with their pretensions.  He shreds the egos of his students...until he discovers that the most withholding of the students is actually very talented.

The reviews range from "clever, witty and engaging" to "nippy and mean".  It is up to you to choose.