Red Bull Theater to Open Season with Gala Benefit Reading Featuring Michael Urie, Reg Rogers & Veanne Cox

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) today announced that their Twelfth Season will kick off with a special benefit reading and party on Monday October 26th (7:30pm): George Etherege's The Man Of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter, directed by Jesse Berger, starring Reg Rogers and Veanne Cox and featuring Michael Urie as Sir Fopling, along with Matthew Amendt, Suzanne Bertish, Angel Desai, Ryan Garbayo, Adam Green, Kathryn Meisle, Amelia Pedlow, Everett Quinton, Liv Rooth, Marc Vietor, Spiff Weigand, and more The Man of Mode will feature live music by Scott Killian. Libertine or liberator? London's leading rake wreaks hilarious havoc on high society in this - the original Restoration Comedy - with help from Sir Fopling Flutter, the first and greatest of the Restoration fops. An exclusive party with cast and special guests including Paige Davis, Joseph Hardy, Chukwudi Iwuji, Amanda Quaid, Patrick Page, Laila Robins, Chirstina Pumariega, Matthew Rauch and Miriam Silverman, among others, follows the benefit reading.

Tickets are $150 for Reading & Post-performance Party; $300 for Premium Benefit Seating as well as the 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. Tickets On Sale Now. PLEASE NOTE: This event takes place Monday October 26th (7:30pm) at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street.

Future Revelation Readings will include John Marston's The Malcontent, Cyril Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy, Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Thomas Middleton's A Trick To Catch The Old One, Philip Massinger's The Roman Actor, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Frances Burney's The Woman Hater, Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Congreve's The Way of the World, and the sixth annual Short New Play Festival, with casts that include Steven Boyer (Hand to God), Arnie Burton (Irma Vep - Red Bull Theater; Lives of the Saints); Carson Elrod (Peter and the Starcatcher, Reckless, Noises Off), Chukwudi Iwuji (Henry VI Trilogy - Royal Shakespeare Company, Tamburlaine, King Lear); Arian Moayed (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Patrick Page (The Duchess of Malfi - Red Bull Theater, Spring Awakening), Matthew Rauch (The Revenger's Tragedy - Red Bull Theater; "Banshee"), Jay O. Sanders (Titus Andronicus, "Person of Interest"), Sam Tsoutsouvas (The Witch of Edmonton - Red Bull Theater; By Jeeves), and Nick Westrate (Loot - Red Bull Theater, Casa Valentina), among others.

"I couldn't be more thrilled about our upcoming 'Season of Scandal!'" said Artistic Director Jesse Berger, "It's a pleasure to bring two great Off-Broadway productions of rarely seen classics to the Lortel - one an incredibly intense Jacobean drama, the other one of the greatest English comedies ever written - both fascinating and entertaining studies of human nature. Alongside these two productions, this year's Revelation Reading Series-with classic rarities, innovative explorations of Shakespeare, and our annual Short New Play Festival-is going to be a great ride. As our 12th season gets underway, I'm especially looking forward to all the wonderful artists joining us!"

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling, directed by Jesse Berger, will begin a limited engagement December 26th, 2015 at The Lucille Lortel Theater (121 Christopher Street). Opening Night is set for January 10th, 2016. How far will you go to follow your heart? Beatrice-Joanna is in love with Alsemero - who is unfortunately not her fiancée. But when she employs her loathsome servant De Flores to bump off her betrothed, the price is her own virgin flesh. Together with a madcap subplot set in an insane asylum, this brilliant and rarely performed Jacobean tragedy explores the follies of love and the nature of madness. Member tickets available now. Single tickets for The Changeling go on sale November 1st, 2015.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School For Scandal, directed by Marc Vietor, will begin its limited engagement April 8th at the Lortel Theater. Opening Night is set for April 24th, 2016. In this comic masterpiece, Sheridan mercilessly dissects a social network of grotesques, gossips, lustful hypocrites and anonymous assassins of reputation who live in a world without privacy, morality or taste. After seventeen years abroad Oliver Surface returns home incognito to test the true characters of his nephews, Charles (a prodigal, apparently), and Joseph (a paragon, supposedly). Meanwhile he discovers his old friend Peter Teazle has wed a young country wife and is in marital purgatory, being victimized in print and society by a spiteful team of imbeciles and rumor-mongers - Fun for the whole family. Member tickets available now. Single tickets for The School For Scandal will go on sale November 1st, 2015.

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. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as the cornerstone of our mission, Red Bull Theater is dedicated to the rediscovery and re-investigation of classics from all eras and cultures, and to the development of new plays of heightened language and classical themes. Revelation Readings provides a unique opportunity to hear these plays performed by many of the finest actors in New York.

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