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Today, Red Bull Theater announced the first public presentation of a new dramatization of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, adapted and directed by Michael Barakiva. Presented in two parts, this event will feature Jason Butler Harner (Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Crucible, The Coast of Utopia; Cock - The Duke; Drama Desk nominations for The Village Bike and The Paris Letter) as Satan and Saidah Arrika Ekulona (Ruined - Manhattan Theatre Club: Obie and Lortel Awards; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League nominations; Motherhood Out Loud - Primary Stages, A Streetcar Named Desire - NY Theatre Workshop; Broadway: Well) as God, along with Stephen Bel Davies (The Honest Whore for Red Bull Theater), Sheldon Best (The Hot Wing King - Signature Theatre; Sugar in Our Wounds - Manhattan Theatre Club; brownsville song (b-side for tray) - LCT3; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Atlantic Theater), Gisela Chípe (Quixote Nuevo - Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Alley Theatre; Emancipation - Classical Theatre of Harlem), Robert Cuccioli (Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde - Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards; Les Miserables; Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; Off-Broadway: The White Devil for Red Bull Theatre; Caesar & Cleopatra - Gingold Group), Carol Halstead (C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce - Theatre Row; The Screwtape Letters - National Tour), Gregory Linington (Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Blind Date - Goodman Theatre; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ford's Theatre; The Little Foxes - Arena Stage), Daniel José Molina (Broadway: Fish in the Dark; Othello, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Water by the Spoonful, A Streetcar Named Desire - Oregon Shakespeare), Sam Morales (Medea - BAM, Measure for Measure, The Skin of Our Teeth, Pericles - TFANA), Howard Overshown (Broadway: A Soldier's Play - Roundabout, Saint Joan - Manhattan Theatre Club, A Free Man of Color - Lincoln Center Theater, Julius Caesar; Outer Critics Circle nomination: Yellowman - Manhattan Theatre Club, Long Wharf, McCarter, Wilma, ACT), and Cherie Corinne Rice (The Woman Hater, The White Devil - Red Bull Theater).
With its exquisite language and Shakespearean scale, John Milton's epic poem explores the fundamental questions of the human experience: What is evil? If God is all-powerful, why did he allow evil to exist? Do humans have free will? Is our life predestined? Dubbed "an immorality play" by adapter/director Michael Barakiva, this new adaptation will be presented in two parts:
The Fall of Lucifer will premiere LIVE on Monday, APRIL 12th. A recording of that livestream will be available until 7PM EST on Friday, APRIL 16th - then it disappears.
News About Paradise Lost: The Fall of Lucifer at Red Bull Theater
Jason Butler Harner, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Robert Cuccioli & More to Star in PARADISE LOST Presented by Red Bull Theater
April 01, 2021Today, Red Bull Theater announced the first public presentation of a new dramatization of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, adapted and directed by Michael Barakiva. Presented in two parts, this event will feature Jason Butler Harner, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Stephen Bel Davies, Sheldon Best, Gisela Chípe, Robert Cuccioli and more.
Red Bull Theater Postpones THE ALCHEMIST
March 24, 2020Red Bull Theater today announced the postponement of their upcoming Off-Broadway production, The Alchemist, due to the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
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