Coming: THE WITCH OF EDMONTON

THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
By Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley
Adapted and directed by Jesse Berger

RED BULL THEATER
Limited Run starts performances January 25, 2011

A witch, a fool, a young man, his two wives, an angry mob, and one very devilish dog take the stage in the first major Off Broadway production of this fantastical tragicomedy. In a new adaptation of the original Jacobean play, this rarely-performed classic rips open the dark underbelly of a small town with humor and pathos. As the lives of its inhabitants intersect in spellbinding ways, the power of a community for both good and evil is revealed. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience this fascinating and disturbingly timely tale.

CAST
Craig Baldwin — Justin Blanchard — Adam Green — Christopher Innvar — Christopher McCann — Carman Lacivita — Christina Pumariega — Amanda Quaid — Everett Quinton — André De Shields — Miriam Silverman — Derek Smith — Raphael Nash Thompson — Sam Tsoutsouvas — Charlayne Woodard

PRODUCTION TEAM
Designs by Anka Lupes, Cait O'Connor, Elizabeth Rhodes and Peter West, featuring Original Music by Daniel Levy, with additional designs by Deb Gauoette, Erin Kennedy Lunsford, Jessica Scott, and Dan Scully. Casting by Stuart Howard, Voice & Text by Dan Pardo, Choreography by Tracy Bersley, Aerial Effects by Paul Rubin and Stage Violence by Rick Sordelet. Stage Manager: Damon Arrington. Production Supervisor: James E. Cleveland. Associate Producer: Renee Blinkwolt. Publicist: David Gersten.


TICKETS - On Sale Now
http://www.redbulltheater.com/ or 212.352.3101
$20 and Up ***Prices vary according to availability

SPECIAL RATES
-$100 Benefit Opening Jan 30 $250 for VIP Opening Night Party*
-All seats $10 off Regular Price on Preview Perf’s Jan 25-29
-Unique "On-Stage" seating $10 Off Regular Price at all Perf’s
-Student $20 Age 30 & Under & Industry $30 Senior $40 (w/ID at Box Office)
-$20 Tuesdays: Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8
-20 Rush Tickets released 1 hr prior to Tuesday perf’s at Box Office - cash only
-Group Discount: 40% off for groups of 10 or more. Call (212) 414-5168 ext. 1 or write jerry@redbulltheater.com

EARLY BIRD OFFER – 20% OFF
-Buy tickets before Jan 21 and receive 20% discount using code PRE0121. (some restrictions apply)

*BENEFIT OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE - JANUARY 30 @ 7pm
VIP Opening Night Party with Special Guests: Tim Carroll, Michael Cerveris, Veanne Cox, Daniel Davis, John Douglas Thompson, Jennifer Ikeda, Dana Ivey, Brent Langdon, Robert Emmet Lunney, Jan Maxwell, Roberta Maxwell, Jeff McCarthy, Kathryn Meisle, Kristine Nielsen, Matthew Rauch, Roger Rees, Christina Rouner, Jay O. Sanders, Erica Schmidt, Michael Torke, Marc Vietor, and more.

Theater at St. Clements
423 West 46 Street
New York

Link: WIKIPEDIA on "The Witch of Edmonton"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_of_Edmonton

RED BULL THEATER: OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL

RED BULL THEATER
NEW SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR 10-MINUTE PLAYS

Red Bull Theater seeks new 10-minute plays for the spring short play reading day.

New plays of no more than 10 pages, written in heightened language, in verse, with classic themes, adaptations of classics, or that otherwise fit our mission and history are welcome.

Monday June 13th, 7:30pm
NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
World Premiere Short Plays

Using heightened language, contemporary playwrights respond to the classic themes and stories from Red Bull Theater’s mission.

Directed by Timothy Douglas and Wendy Goldberg.

Featuring new plays by Elizabeth Egloff, David Grimm, and Maybe You -

Submit your play!

BASIC RULES
(unofficial -- see below for submission details and official rules)
1 - Only one submission per author.
2 - Deadline: RECEIVED (not postmarked) by December 31, 2010
3 - Submit by mail, not electronically. Address:

Red Bull Theater
10 Minute Play Festival
PO BOX 250863
New York, NY 10025

4 - There will not be any comments returned to the author.


Visit www.redbulltheater.com/Collaborate and
http://www.redbulltheater.com/Festival/SPF_Guidelines.pdf
for details.

Write wendy@redbulltheater.com with any questions.
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UPCOMING AT RED BULL THEATER

CLASSICAL ACTING WEEKEND INTENSIVE: October 30-31, 2010
Classes with Stuart Howard, Elizabeth Smith, Rick Sordelet, Michael Urie, and more!

REVELATION READINGS: Now through June 13, 2011
Next: Love Lies A-Bleeding with Santino Fontana and Heather Lind – October 25, 7:30pm

THE WITCH OF EDMONTON: Starts Performances January 25, 2011
A wild and timely Jacobean tragicomedy, featuring bigamy, witchery, and a very devilish dog...

Plus...

MARGARET:
In the Raw WorkshopIn collaboration with The Shakespeare Society:
Spend the night with Shakespeare's greatest queenFebruary 24-27, 2011

And, finally...

RUNNING OF THE RED BULLS: June 6, 2011 – Annual Benefit Party:
Presentation of the Matador Awards for Excellence in Classical Theater – Mark your calendars!

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RED BULL THEATER
NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
Consider making a contribution...

Ticket Sales cover only 35% of the cost of programs.
Contribute today if you can... Every dollar counts!
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"The most exciting classical theater company in New York."-Time Out New York

JESSE BERGER
Artistic Director
www.REDBULLTHEATER.com

RED BULL THEATER CLASSICAL ACTING WEEKEND INTENSIVE OCT 30-31

RED BULL THEATER

CLASSICAL ACTING
WEEKEND INTENSIVE

Here's an interesting Master Class from the

Red Bull Theater

Two Days Only: October 30-31

Master teachers will be offering classes in
Voice and Verse, Auditioning for the Classics,
Stage Combat, and More

Instructors
Red Bull Theater master teachers are professional artists working in the field, with teaching experience. Previous courses have been taught by Stuart Howard, casting director; J. David Brimmer, fight director; actors Patrick Page, Matthew Rauch, Michael Urie, Red Bull Theater artistic director Jesse Berger, and more. New courses will be taught by some of the above, and feature new teachers of the same high caliber.


Small class size - Limited number of spaces available!
Classes will be held at 416 West 42nd Street.

Full tuition only $400.
For two full days, immerse yourself in the world of classical text, acting Shakespeare, stage combat, and more. Prepare for your next role, or your next audition. Give yourself the tools you need to get started, or brush up on your old skills. Over two days, you will have four in-depth sessions with our master teachers, giving ample time to dig in and explore this challenging material, and engage one-on-one with these working professionals.

Enroll Online at

www.REDBULLTHEATER.com

Note: There may be a $25 discount if you reserve your spot by October 1st. Call them!

Email mathilde@redbulltheater.com for more info or to make your reservation today.

Get in charge of the language and express your soul!


www.REDBULLTHEATER.com

RED BULL THEATER BURNING

A reading of a play is a strange thing. It must be clear, moving, emotional, funny, powerful, understandable, interesting, convincing, etc, using words alone, and usually not that many rehearsals. No stage design, no sets, no costumes, no body language, no weeks of rehearsal... neither to deepen the actors' understanding of the play and the character, nor to help the audience understand the play and enjoy the eye candy of great sets and costumes.

Burning, Burning, Burning, Burning by David Bar Katz managed to be funny, and powerfully moving, just on the strength of words alone in a reading at the Red Bull Theater. It is a meditation on ways that humans react when assaulted by unspeakable horror committed by fellow humans. And it's funny. But not at the end.

The acting, by Eric Bogosian and the entire cast, was excellent.

The story takes place during a time of horrible and repeated pogroms against Jews by their neighbors, when one member of the Jewish community returns after having been convinced that the Messiah has come and will save them all. The play is specific to its place and time (Poland 1666) and community and situation. But the subject -- how victims of sustained violence, massacres and atrocities against their ethnic, religious, racial, political, class or economic community deal with their situation -- is universal.

Red Bull Theater is currently developing a production of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, which opens Feb 23. (See below for a description.)

Very interestingly, in conjunction with this play, they have scheduled readings of other versions of the story of the Duchess (The Red Bull Theater has a very active program of play readings):

Monday March 15th, 7:30pm
THE STEWARD OF THE DUCHESS OF AMALFI
by Lope de Vega
A lyrical, haunting tragedy of tortured desire, class conflict and revenge - written a few years after Webster's version.
newly translated by Álvaro Mendoza
Directed by Michael John Garcés
Featuring Zabryna Guevara and Alfredo Narciso
Post-play Bull Session

Monday March 22nd, 7:30pm
BRECHT’S DUCHESS OF MALFI
Adapted by Bertolt Brecht and W.H. Auden
Brecht’s version of Webster’s masterpiece for a 1946 Broadway production intensifies the original’s dark undercurrents.
Directed by Ian Strasfogel
Featuring Francesca Faridany
Post-play Bull Session

Here's a little more information from Red Bull about their production of Webster's Duchess of Malfi:

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

BY JOHN WEBSTER

DIRECTED BY JESSE BERGER

ABOUT THE PLAY
A great romance turns to horror as the Duchess of Malfi seeks true love in a world of forbidden passions. A play for our time as much as its own, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi examines sexual repression, honor, class, and the true value of the human spirit, in this explosive drama of Italian intrigue. Red Bull Theater’s production is the first Off Broadway revival of this Jacobean masterpiece in over 50 years.

CAST
Heidi Armbruster, Jason C. Brown, Clark Carmichael, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Matthew Greer, Carol Halstead, Eric Hoffmann, Patrick Page, Matthew Rauch, Christina Rouner, Gareth Saxe, and Haynes Thigpen.

PRODUCTION
Designs by Beowulf Boritt, Emily DeCola, Jared B. Leese, Nathan Leigh, Erin Kennedy Lunsford, Jason Lyons, Sèan McArdle, and Jessica Scott. Casting by Stuart Howard, Music by Scott Killian, Voice and Speech by Shane Ann Younts, Choreography by Tracy Bersley and Stage Violence by J. David Brimmer. Stage Manager: Rebecca C. Monroe. General Manager: Lisa Dozier. Publicist: David Gersten & Associates. Directed by Jesse Berger.

REVELATION READINGS AT RED BULL THEATER

RED BULL THEATER

presents

REVELATION READINGS

OBIE AWARD-WINNING READING SERIES

September 15th 2008 – March 2nd 2009


SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER READINGS

Monday September 15, 7pm

A BENEFIT READING OF

RESTORATION COMEDY

by Amy Freed (The Beard of Avon)

New York Premiere, directed by Jesse Berger

Featuring Michael Urie (Ugly Betty, Revenger’s Tragedy), Bill Camp, and More!

A hilarious fusion of Vanbrugh’s classic sex-farce The Relapse and its wild prequel Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift, this new comedy is not to be missed.

VIP reception with the artists beforehand. Cocktail party with live music follows the reading.

Admission: $100 Reading & Party, $250 VIP Reception + Reading & Party

Reserve now at www.redbulltheater.com
or 212.352.3101


Monday September 29, 7pm

THE SILENT WOMAN

by Ben Jonson

This Jacobean gem is satirically savvy, with a surprisingly sexy twist.

Starring F Murray Abraham (Amadeus, Merchant of Venice)


Monday October 6, 7pm

A HORSE’S ASS

by David Greenspan, loosely adapted from Pietro Aretino’s Renaissance comedy, Il Marescalco.

1526. Mantua. A homosexual man will be forced at knifepoint to marry a woman. He’s tearing his hair out.

Directed by Leigh Silverman (Well)



Monday October 27, 7pm

THE CENCI

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tyranny, incest, and assassination – a 16th century tragedy comes to vivid life in the hands of one of the great Romantic poets.

Directed by Eleanor Holdridge

Featuring Lisa Harrow (Wit) and Roger Rees (Indiscretions)



Monday November 17, 7pm

THE MALCONTENT

by John Marston

A truculent tragicomedy, this scathing attack on government corruption is timely, terrifying, and disconcertingly amusing.

Directed by Ethan McSweeny (The Persians, 1001)

Featuring Matthew Rauch (Revenger’s Tragedy)



Monday December 8, 7pm

DOCTOR FAUSTUS

by Christopher Marlowe

Faustus sells his soul to the Devil for knowledge – the classic tale, as only Marlowe could have told it!

Directed by Mark Lamos (Cymbeline)



COMING THIS SEASON

A full production of
Thomas Middleton’s WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN

Directed by Jesse Berger

Tickets on sale soon…


2009 READINGS

Monday January 12, 7pm
ELECTRICIDAD: A Chicano take on the tragedy of Electra
by Luis Alfaro

Sophocles’ great classic re-imagined, set in a contemporary Los Angeles barrio.

Directed by Lisa Peterson


Monday February 23, 7pm
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
by Peter Shaffer

A modern epic about the conquest of Peru by Spain and the destruction of the Inca Empire, a clash of cultures brought about by an occupying force.

Directed by Joe Hardy

Monday March 2, 7pm
THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA
by Miguel de Cervantes

A devastating play about honor, sacrifice, and the last days of Numantia by the creator of Don Quixote.

Directed by Moises Kaufman


LOCATION

Theater at St. Clement’s

423 West 46th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues

Subway: A/C/E to 42nd Street, Exit on 44th Street

Parking: 415 West 45th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues



TICKETS

$25 Adults

$10 Students/Industry*

$100/$250 Benefit

$65+ Subscription Packages Available

Purchase at www.redbulltheater.com
or call 212-352-3101, or 866-811-4111 (toll-free)


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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