Olympia Dukakis, Lily Rabe, Brian d'Arcy James and More to Appear in Red Bull Theater's 11th Season

Red Bull Theater today announced that their Eleventh Season will include a rare revival of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore along with an all new season of their acclaimed Revelation Readings, including Dekker & Middleton's The Honest Whore, Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Love's Sacrifice, Baillie's De Montfort, Ludlam's Camille, Euripides's Hippolytos, Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Calderón's Life Is a Dream, Ibsen's The Wild Duck (a new version by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Auburn), Beaumont & Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, Marston's The Dutch Courtesan, Sheridan's The School For Scandal, with casts that include Olympia Dukakis, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Charlayne Woodard, Brian D'Arcy James, Rocco Sisto, Robert Cuccioli, Charles Busch, Everett Quinton, Arnie Burton, Tom Hewitt, Jennifer Ikeda, Christopher Innvar, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Rebecca Brooksher, Jeremy Shamos, Harris Yulin, Nick Westrate, Carson Elrod, and Jeanine Serralles, among others.

Memberships with special discounts and perks are available now; single tickets for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore go on sale January 5th for $62, with Premium Seats available at $84 at www.redbulltheater.com or at (212) 352-3101. For more information visit www.redbulltheater.com.

"I couldn't be more excited to announce our 2014-15 season! It's a joy to be celebrating the heart of our mission with Shakespeare's The Tempest and Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, alongside a plethora of related Revelation Readings and Master Classes throughout the year. It's going to be a particular thrill to present 'Tis Pity, the sexiest Jacobean drama ever, at the Duke on 42nd Street - bringing this fantastic play to the heart of the theater district as we launch our second decade of sharing great classic stories," said Red Bull Artistic Director Jesse Berger.

John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, directed by Berger, will begin a limited engagement April 12th at The Duke on 42nd Street. Opening Night is set for Sunday April 26th. What if Romeo and Juliet were brother and sister? Find out in this daring and provocative thriller. Red Bull Theater returns to its roots with the bloodiest and sexiest of all Jacobean tragedies. This heart-pounding tale of love, lust and hypocrisy is a deliciously perverse romantic tragedy. Siblings Annabella and Giovanni fall into an incestuous affair with a brutal velocity that sets Renaissance Parma aflame with its passionate force. Defiant in their desires to the bloody end, these lovers take "star-crossed" into a whole new galaxy. This crown jewel of Jacobean drama has scandalized and enthralled audiences for four centuries with its singular journey through the fires of desire. In its first major Off-Broadway production in 20 years, this rollicking ride will have your moral compass spinning wildly. Single tickets go on sale January 5th.

Monday October 20th (7:30pm) will offer a special benefit reading and party to kick off the Eleventh Season: William Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Jesse Berger with music by Greg Pliska, with Jay O. Sanders, Stephen Spinella, Michael Urie, De'Adre Aziza, Gerry Bamman, Angel Desai, Ismenia Mendes, Sean Patrick Doyle, Matthew Rauch, Raphael Nash Thompson, Marc Vietor, and more... Revenge can cause quite a commotion. Full of power and poetry, Shakespeare's final play is a magical tale of shipwrecks and storms, of justice and mercy, life and art. This funny and hauntingly beautiful work brings Red Bull Theater back to its founding roots with Shakespearean romance at its pinnacle. "O brave new world that has such people in it!" An exclusive party with cast and special guests follows the benefit reading. $150 Reading & Post-performance Party $300 Premium Benefit Seating, Party & VIP Pre-show Cocktails. A limited number of Reading Only tickets will be available for $75. Purchase tickets at www.redbulltheater.com or by phone at (212) 352-3101. This event takes place at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street.

Red Bull Theater's OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings (Monday evenings at 7:30pm) present staged readings of new and rarely performed classic plays from all eras and cultures. This season's Revelation Reading series zooms in on the uncontrolled passions of women in extremis, the men who drive them there ... and vice versa. Revelation Readings begin September 29th with Thomas Dekker's The Honest Whore: Can a lusty prostitute fall in love without losing her mind in the process? This surprisingly comedic domestic drama provides the perfect kick-off to a season of uncontrolled passions. Directed by Marc Vietor with Carson Elrod, Amelia Pedlow, Bill Army, Helen Cespedes, Auden Thornton, and Rocco Sisto (at the Pearl Theatre, 555 West 42nd Street).

Subsequent Readings include:

· November 3 - Joanna Baillie's De Montfort - Directed by Sari Ketter with Robert Cuccioli at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street

· November 17 - Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck (A premiere new version by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn) - Directed by Wendy C. Goldberg with Rebecca Brooksher, Jeremy Shamos, and Harris Yulin at Playwrights Horizons

· December 1 - Beaumont & Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy - with Tom Hewitt, Jennifer Ikeda, and Jeanine Serralles at Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street

· December 29 - Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid In Cheapside - with Sam Tsoutsouvas and Charlayne Woodard at Lucille Lortel Theatre

· January 12 - Charles Ludlam's Camille - Directed by Everett Quinton with Charles Busch and Arnie Burton at Lucille Lortel Theatre *The first of two collaborations with Busch & Quinton, building on Red Bull's Ridiculous Season last year.

· February 2 - Calderón's Life Is A Dream - Directed by Matthew Rauch with Steven Boyer and Nick Westrate at Lucille Lortel Theatre

· February 16 - Euripides' Hippolytos - by contemporary poet Anne Carson; Directed by Ted Pappas with Olympia Dukakis at a venue to be announced

· March 2 - John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan - Directed by Michael Sexton with Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe at Lucille Lortel Theatre

· March 9 - John Ford's Perkin Warbeck - Directed by Carl Forsman with Brian D'Arcy James at Lucille Lortel Theatre

· May 4 - John Ford's Love's Sacrifice - Directed by Craig Baldwin with Tina Benko and Christopher Innvar at Playwrights Horizons ?

· June 29 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal - with Charles Busch and Everett Quinton at Lucille Lortel Theatre *The second of two Ridiculous collaborations with Busch and Quinton this season.

Tickets for Revelation Readings are $42 with Premium Seats available at $64. Become a Member and get them for only $25! (For complete list of Readings and updated cast information, visit www.redbulltheater.com). All artists subject to change.

July 14th brings Red Bull's Short New Play Festival, directed by May Adrales and Evan Yionoulis. Each year, Red Bull Theater selects new works of heightened language and classical themes from today's top established and emerging playwrights including a commission from Pulitzer Prize nominee Lee Blessing. Inspired this year by the theme of uncontrolled passions, these scribes will conjure wildly diverse tales, catapulting classical theater into the future. At the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street. Tickets will be only $20!

Red Bull Theater, hailed as "the city's gutsiest classical theater" by Time Out New York, is the not-profit Off-Broadway theater company specializing in plays of heightened language. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as its cornerstone, Red Bull Theater embraces the imagination of theatergoers through intimate, imaginative productions of great classic stories from all eras and cultures. Red Bull Theater's eleventh season builds upon their unique history and mission to present vital and imaginative renderings of heightened language plays from all eras and cultures as they launch a second decade of sharing great classic stories.

Acclaimed as "a dynamic producer of classic plays" by The New York Times, Red Bull Theater has previously staged productions of Shakespeare's Pericles, the anonymous Revenger's Tragedy, Marlowe's Edward the Second, Middleton's Women Beware Women, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, the Off-Broadway premiere of Dekker, Ford & Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton, a major Off-Broadway revival of Jean Genet's The Maids, a new version of Strindberg's The Dance of Death by Mike Poulton, rare New York revivals of Loot and The Mystery of Irma Vep, and the first Off-Broadway revival of Volpone in over 50 years. The company's work has been hailed over the years as "the most exciting classical theater in New York" (Time Out New York), "Dynamite! (The New York Times), "the city's gutsiest classical theater" (Time Out New York), "Triumphant" (Associated Press), and "Proof that classical theater can still be surprising after hundreds of years" (Variety), among others.

Red Bull Theater's work has been recognized with multiple Callaway, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and OBIE Award nominations and Awards. The company has staged over 125 readings through its ongoing OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings, named by the Village Voice "Best Play Reading Series," and has developed new plays of heightened language and classical adaptations through its In-the-Raw workshop series. Red Bull Theater reaches out to NYC students of all ages through "Direct Address" education programs teaching Shakespeare in middle schools and student matinees. Post-play "Bull Session" discussions with scholars following selected Sunday matinees and Readings are free and open to the public.

Red Bull Theater offers Master Classes, Classical Acting Intensives and Workshops throughout the year and taught by top working professionals including Kathleen Chalfant, John Douglas Thompson, Olympia Dukakis, Heidi Griffiths, and Patrick Page, Red Bull Theater's intensives and workshops cover a variety of disciplines, including auditioning, text, voice, movement, clowning, stage combat, and acting Shakespeare. Classes are open to adults at all levels of training or experience. They range from one to six days with limited class sizes to allow one-on-one attention. You can enroll in any combination of classes, or take the whole series for a yearlong master training experience. Visit www.redbulltheater.com for complete details.

Memberships with special discounts and perks are available now; Single tickets for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore go on sale January 5th for $62, with Premium Seats available at $84 at www.redbulltheater.com or at (212) 352-3101. For more information visit www.redbulltheater.com.

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