On the first of the month, Laura Linney began rehearsing Donald Margulies’ new Broadway play, Time Stands Still, in which she plays a photojournalist sidelined by a war injury.

She arrived somewhat the worse for wear, having just finished a Showtime pilot, called “The C Word,” in which she plays a teacher who, in the first episode, is diagnosed with cancer. It’s a comedy, focusing on her post-diagnostic life and her crazy family.

Oliver Platt plays her husband, John Benjamin Hickey her wildly eccentric brother, Gabby Sidibe (a.k.a. “Precious”) her student and Phyllis Somerville as a neighbor.

Darlene Hunt wrote the script and Bill Condon (an Oscar winning screenwriter for “Gods and Monsters,” who also worked with Linney on “Kinsey” and helped bring “Dreamgirls” and “Chicago” to the screen) directed the pilot.

Word on whether “The C Word” is a go or a no is expected around mid-January.

— Harry Haun