The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0587 Monday, 10 September 2007
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Date: Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 02:53:19 -0400
Subject: Red Bull Theater's Revelation Readings Return October 1st
Lynn Redgrave, Michael Cerveris, Roger Rees -- Red Bull Theater's
Revelation Readings Return October 1st -- Jessica Hecht, Richard Easton,
Michael Stuhlbarg, and more!
Red Bull Theater's OBIE Award-Winning Reading Series Returns
REVELATION READINGS: October 1, 2007 - January 21, 2008
<http://www.redbulltheater.com/current.html>
Monday October 1st, 7pm
Benefit Committee Hostess and Academy Award-Winning Actress MARISA TOMEI
invites you to attend a benefit for Red Bull Theater:
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1463>
DESDEMONA: A play about a handkerchief
by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Paula Vogel
Directed by Jesse Berger (The Revenger's Tragedy).
Starring Jessica Hecht (Friends, Julius Caesar) and more.
Admission $75
Othello, as seen from the perspective of the women in the play-a
satirical and provocatively alternative view of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Cocktail reception with the playwright, actors, and live music follows
the reading.
Reserve now at
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1463>
TicketCentral.com or 212.279.4200
Monday October 8, 7pm
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1464>
The Changeling
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
Directed by Karin Coonrod (Henry VI)
Featuring Matthew Rauch (The Revenger's Tragedy)
Lust, murder, adultery, and lunacy - it doesn't get more Jacobean than
this masterpiece of mayhem.
Monday October 22, 7pm
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1466>
Tallgrass Gothic
by Melanie Marnich
New York Premiere
Directed by Leigh Silverman (Well)
Featuring Tony Award-Winner Michael Cerveris (Sweeney Todd)
A stunning, lyrical re-telling of The Changeling set in contemporary
rural Minnesota.
Monday October 29, 7pm
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1465>
The Just
by Albert Camus, adapted and newly translated by Anthony Clarvoe
Directed by Ethan McSweeny (Best Man)
Featuring Obie Award-Winner Michael Stuhlbarg (Pillowman) and Tony
Award-Winner Ellen McLaughlin (Angels in America)
Is violence ever the answer? Even if the cause is just? Step inside a
terrorist cell circa 1905 and peer into the hearts and minds of young
people willing to kill and die for what they believe.
Monday November 12, 7pm
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1467>
The Rover
by Aphra Behn, adapted by John Barton
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
A trio of English rakes looking for kicks in 17th century Spain meets a
trio of Spanish sisters looking for husbands at carnival in this raucous
and raunchy restoration comedy by the first woman to make her living as
a playwright.
Monday November 26, 7pm
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1468>
The Lady's Not For Burning
by Christopher Fry
Directed by Tony Award-Winner Joseph Hardy (Child's Play)
Featuring Lynn Redgrave and Richard Easton
In a world of hypocrisy, post-war superstition and witch-hunting, a man
returns from war to find love and redemption in spite of his
circumstances, all in a hilariously chaotic mix of characters wrapped up
in a poetic tangle of fun.
JANUARY READINGS:
* Monday January 7, 7pm:
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1469> Bertolt
Brecht's Edward II, a radical 20th century revision of the Elizabethan
classic. Featuring cast members from our production of Marlowe's play,
directed by Michael Sexton.
* Monday January 14, 7pm:
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1470> Don't Fuck
With Love, a contemporary spin on Alfred de Musset's love tragicomedy by
Kay Matschullat, interpolating Abelard, Heloise, instant messaging, and
the power elite, directed by Lear deBessonet.
* Monday January 21, 7pm:
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1471> The
Cardinal, by James Shirley, directed by Carl Forsman, starring Roger
Rees. The last of the great Elizabethan dramatists explores corruption
in the church through a wonderfully tangled web of deceit, plots, love
affairs, poison and death.
LOCATION
<http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=416+West+42nd+Street&csz=New+York%2C+NY++10036&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=>
Playwrights Horizons/Peter Jay Sharp Theater
416 West 42nd Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
Trains: A/C/E to 42nd Street or the N/Q/R or 1/9 to Times Square
Parking: Alliance Parking, 500 West 43rd Street at 10th Avenue
TICKETS
$20 Adults
$10 Students
$75 Desdemona Benefit
$200 Subscription Package to all 9 Readings
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/>
www.ticketcentral.com
212.279.4200
COMING SOON
Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second
<http://www.redbulltheater.com/current.html>
Adapted by Garland Wright, Directed by Jesse Berger
Performances start December 11th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Tickets on sale October 1st: www.ticketcentral.com
<http://www.ticketcentral.com/>
Jesse Berger
Artistic Director
PO Box 250863
NEW YORK NY 10025
<http://www.redbulltheater.com/> www.redbulltheater.com
212.414.5168
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WHO WE ARE
Red Bull Theater is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit company dedicated to the
presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language
plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein.
With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and
engage the imagination of today's theatergoers through language-based,
company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great classic stories.
Donations to Red Bull Theater are fully tax-deductible to the extent
permitted by law.
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