Revelation Readings, Red Bull Theater
Revelation Readings from Red Bull Theater is one of the more elaborate theatrical reading series in town (read: fancy participants and expensive tickets). It focuses on new plays and rarely-performed classics. Tickets range from $20 to $80.
Red Bull Theater sells memberships that offer discounted tickets to the reading series. For more information on memberships click here.
TICKETS
$20.00-$80.00 (click for tickets)
LOCATION
(unless otherwise noted)
Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher Street
New York City
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DATES
Mondays at 7:30pm
Cast and details are subject to change
October 14
SAMSON AGONISTES
by John Milton
The biblical hero, imprisoned, blind and without his hair, faces God in this lyrical, violent epic.
Directed by Michael Sexton
With Ron Cephas Jones, Robert Cuccioli, Richard Easton, Alfredo Narciso, Joan Macintosh, Dakin Matthews, Christina Rouner, Robert Stanton, and Marc Vietor
November 4
DINNER
by Moira Buffini
The dinner party as revenge – served up in a deliciously dark contemporary British comedy.
Directed by David Esbjornson
With Mercedes Ruehl, J. Smith-Cameron, Daniel Gerroll, Laura Campbell, and Brian Hutchison
Location: TBD
SPECIAL EVENT READING – HALF PRICE TKTS
November 18
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The defiant, tormented Prometheus is released to the world in this exquisite romantic fantasia.
Directed by Craig Baldwin
With John Douglas Thompson and Jennifer Ikeda
December 9
THE TRAGEDY OF MR. MORN
New York Premiere of a play by Vladimir Nabokov
A dazzling verse romance by the precocious 24-year old author, responding to Revolution with a bloody tale of desire.
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
With Quincy Tyler Bernstine and David Greenspan
December 16
TOO CLEVER BY HALF
by Alexander Ostrovsky
An anarchic, side-splitting satire about a smooth-talking opportunist and his ruthless climb to the top.
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
With Stephen Spinella
January 27
ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
by Anonymous
Alice Arden’s got a lover; now what to do with her husband? This juicy drama was ripped from Elizabethan headlines.
Directed by Leah Gardiner
February 3
CRIMES OF PASSION
by Joe Orton
Two outrageous one-act plays that make religion, sex, and death the hilarious topics they should be.
With Michael Stuhlbarg
SPECIAL EVENT READING – HALF-PRICE TKTS
February 24
SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET
An amusing and insightful talk explores where Shakespeare found the material to write the world’s greatest revenge tragedy.
by John Wolfson
Location: TBD
March 17
HAPPY END
Concert Reading of the musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
Threepenny Opera meets Guys and Dolls, as a Salvation Army gal falls for a Chicago gangster – and unforgettable songs ensue.
Translated by Michael Feingold
Directed by John Rando
With Jeff McCarthy, Francis Jue and Jayne Houdyshell
March 24
THE ROARING GIRL
by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
A woman in pants was never so notorious as sexy Moll Cutpurse in this Jacobean delight.
Directed by Ben Prusiner
With Lily Rabe, Rocco Sisto and Sam Tsoutsouvas
April 28
STAGE BLOOD
by Charles Ludlam
Life imitates art for a troupe of third-rate thespians doing Hamlet – with Ridiculous results.
Directed by Deborah Wolfson
With Carson Elrod, Kathryn Meisle, and Derek Smith
May 5
THE COUNTRY WIFE
by William Wycherly
A young woman discovers the joys – and men – of London, in this filthy, fast-paced Restoration farce.
Directed by Marc Vietor
With Jeremy Shamos
May 19
THE ALCESTIAD
by Thornton Wilder
America’s great dramatist explores the human and divine in a haunting re-imagining of the classic Greek myth.
Directed by Doug Hughes
With André De Shields
Location: TBD
SPECIAL EVENT READING – HALF-PRICE TKTS
July 14
SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
Directed by May Adrales and Evan Yionulis
New works of heightened language from today’s hottest writers, including David Ives and Anne Washburn.
Location: TBD