Red Bull Revelation Readings feat. Cerveris, Breaker, Gummer

Red Bull Theater announces their fall season with the return of Revelation Readings, an Obie Award-Winning reading series exploring new and classic plays of heightened language, a major new revival of Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second, a new play workshop called In The Raw, and a second full production to be announced later this season. 

REVELATION READINGS

Monday October 1 at 7PM
Academy Award-winning Actress Marisa Tomei serves as Honorary Host for the first Revelation Reading, a benefit for Red Bull Theater:
Desdemona a play about a handkerchief, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, directed by Jesse Berger. Starring Mamie Gummer, Jessica Hecht and Jennifer Ikeda

Othello, as seen from the perspective of the women in the play — a hilarious, satirical and provocatively alternative view of Shakespeare's tragedy. Cocktail reception with the playwright, actors, and live music follows the reading, featuring Americana singer-songwriter-actor Addie Brownlee

Desdemona will be performed at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage at 7PM on October 1st. 

All other readings will be at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at 7PM.  Tickets will be $75 (Students/Industry $25) and may be purchased at TicketCentral.com or call 212-279-4200

Additional Special Guests including Michael Cerveris (Sweeney Todd), Matthew Rauch and Marc Vietor (The Revenger's Tragedy), Daniel Breaker and Margot White (Pericles), and many more.

Monday October 8
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, directed by Karin Coonrod. Lust, murder, adultery, and lunacy – it doesn't get more Jacobean than this masterpiece. Featuring John Douglas Thompson (Julius Caesar), Kevin Massey (Tarzan), Griffin Matthews (Best of Both Worlds), Tony Torn, Molly Ward (The Shape of Metal) David Patrick Kelly (Twelfth Night), Juliana Francis (Maria del Bosco), and Matthew Rauch (The Revenger's Tragedy)

Monday October 22
Tallgrass Gothic by Melanie Marnich, directed by Leigh Silverman (Well). A stunning, lyrical re-telling of The Changeling set in contemporary rural Minnesota, featuring Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris (Sweeney Todd) and Michael Chernus (Finer Noble Gasses).

Monday October 29
The Just by Albert Camus, adapted by Anthony Clarvoe. 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.  Directed by Ethan McSweeny (The Best Man); featuring Obie Award-winner Michael Stuhlbarg (Pillowman) and Tony Award-winner Ellen McLaughlin (Angels in America).

Monday November 12
The Rover by Aphra Behn.  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.   Directed by Eleanor Holdridge, featuring Daniel Breaker (Pericles, Passing Strange) and Carla Harting (Eurydice)

Monday November 26
The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry.  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—a hilariously chaotic mix of characters wrapped up in a poetic tangle of fun.  Directed by Tony Award-Winner Joseph Hardy, featuring Lynn Redgrave and Richard Easton.

Monday January 7
Bertolt Brecht's Edward II, a one-night only reading of Brecht's radical 20th-century revision of the Elizabethan classic, directed by Michael Sexton, featuring members from Red Bull Theater's concurrent production of Marlowe's play

Monday January 14
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
The Cardinal by James Shirley, directed by Carl Forsman, starring Roger Rees and Philip Goodwin. 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.

In-the-Raw
A new Work-in-Progress program will be inaugurated this season, with one of the following projects:
· Don't Fuck with Love, by Kay Matschullat, inspired by Alfred de Musset's play.  A contemporary spin on de Musset's love tragicomedy, interpolating Abelard, Heloise, instant messaging, and the power elite.
· Once in Elysium, by David Grimm.  An exploration of the life and death of art historian Johann Winckelmann – a journey full of intrigue, art, philosophy, sex, and murder in 18th century Europe.

Mainstage Production
Edward II
Previews start December 11, opening night is December 16 with performances through January 13, 2008.
Performances will be at Peter Jay Sharp Theater at 416 West 42nd Street
Tickets on sale October 1st at www.ticketcentral.com

Red Bull Theater presents the world premiere production of Garland Wright's intensely personal adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's masterpiece about the dramatic and often-dangerous intersection of sex, politics, power and love.

The centerpiece of Red Bull Theater's season, this production of Christopher Marlowe's rarely-performed masterwork, Edward II, will continue Red Bull Theater's exploration of the seldom-seen classics of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, building on their history with Pericles and The Revenger's Tragedy and simultaneously striking out in a bold new direction. Edward II is a timely examination of the struggle for personal human rights amidst a powerful public need for political expediency. It examines the question of whether an individual in absolute public power truly has the right to a personal life. In a climate of political opportunism, this play confronts the question of individual and equal rights head on, leading to a devastating examination of human rights and unreasoning love, amidst a great personal and very public drama of politics, ambition, and war.

Artistic Director Jesse Berger will direct the premiere production of an entirely new version of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, working from a manuscript version by the late director and former artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, Garland Wright (The Devils, K, On the Verge, Vanities). Red Bull Theater's production of Edward the Second will mark the first major Off Broadway production of Marlowe's masterpiece in New York City in over 30 years.

Casting will be announced at a later date.

Designers for Red Bull Theater's Edward the Second include longtime Garland Wright collaborator and Broadway set designer John Arnone, costume designer Clint Ramos, lighting designer Peter West, fight director Rick Sordelet, movement by Tracy Bersley, and original music and sound design by Obadiah Eaves. www.redbulltheater.com