Revelation Readings 2011-2012 To Feature F. Murray Abraham, Helen Carey

Revelation Readings is an OBIE Award-Winning ongoing series presenting staged readings of new plays and rarely-performed classic texts.

Red Bull Theater is dedicated to the rediscovery of neglected classics, 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.

Monday September 19th, 7:30pm
NO EXIT
By Jean-Paul Sartre
This quintessential existentialist play is a passionate examination of free will, personal responsibility, and eternal punishment.
Directed by Wendy McClellan
Featuring Adam Green, Kathryn Meisle and Carrie Preston

Monday October 10th, 7:30pm*
A BENEFIT READING OF
VOLPONE
By Ben Jonson
Starring F. Murray Abraham with Helen Carey and Jay O. Sanders
Directed by Jesse Berger
The greatest of the Jacobean satires skewers humanity's greed and hypocrisy with guffaws and hilarity.
Season kick-off party and reception with the actors and special guests follows the reading.
$100 Reading & Party | $250 Premium Benefit Seating, Party & VIP Pre-Show Cocktails Invitation
*This reading will take place at the Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street.

Monday October 31st, 7:30pm
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR
By Lauren Gunderson
This new revenge comedy is a razor-sharp feminist power-ballad set in the North Georgian mountains with a Jacobean twist - perfect for Halloween.
Directed by Jackson Gay
Featuring PatRick Jones

Monday November 7th, 7:30pm
THE AENEID
By Olivier Kemeid
Inspired by Virgil, this powerful new play transports Aeneas's search for a homeland into the modern world of middle-eastern revolution.
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Michael Cerveris, Kathleen Chalfant, Mia Barron and Tracie Thoms

Monday November 28th, 7:30pm
THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY
By Thomas Dekker
This sweet-natured comedy about Elizabethan life by one of the authors of The Witch of Edmonton is a romantic delight.
Directed by Everett Quinton
Featuring Roberta Maxwell, André De Shields, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Alex Morf and Christina Pumariega

Monday December 5th, 7:30pm
TRAVESTIES OF SHAKESPEARE
A Talk by John Wolfson, Curator of Rare Books, Globe Theatre
Enjoy tracing the history of "Travesties," a popular entertainment in Victorian England which began as satires on Shakespeare.
Featuring scenes with Randy Harrison and John Douglas Thompson

Monday December 26th, 7:30pm
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
By Nikolai Gogol
A brilliant satire of Russian provincial bureaucracy offers a riotous portrait of rampaging self-delusion.
Featuring Marsha Mason and Derek Smith

Monday January 9th, 7:30pm
PIRANDELLO'S HENRY IV
In a new version by Tom Stoppard
A haunting inquiry into madness by the Italian master of illusion sparkles in this new version by a contemporary linguistic virtuoso.
Directed by Jack O'Brien
Featuring Richard Easton and Patrick Page

Monday January 23rd, 7:30pm
A KING AND NO KING
By Beaumont & Fletcher
Absolute power corrupts absolutely deliciously in this sensational Jacobean tragicomedy.
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
Featuring Matthew Rauch

Monday February 6th, 7:30pm
LORENZACCIO
By Alfred De Musset
Translated and Adapted by John Strand
Known as the French Hamlet, a thrilling tale of politics, murder, and betrayal set in Renaissance Italy.
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Featuring Daniel Davis, Jennifer Ikeda and Santino Fontana

Monday March 19th, 7:30pm
THE BALCONY
By Jean Genet
Translated by Jean-Claude van Itallie
Role-playing is a volatile aphrodisiac inside Madame's house of illusion as the world outside erupts in violent revolution.
Directed by David Herskovits
Featuring Amy Irving and Keith David

Monday March 26th, 7:30pm
THE SCREENS
By Jean Genet
Translated by Paul Schmidt
This epic exploration of the Algerian Arab revolt against their French colonizers exalts the individual and relishes the theatrical.
Directed by Tracy Cameron Francis
Featuring Arian Moayed, Heather Raffo and Najla Said

Monday April 30th, 7:30pm
RENEGADO
By Philip Massinger
A fascinating Jacobean romance explores the Islamic Middle-East through a wild tale of international commerce, religious difference, and forbidden love.
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring Monica Raymund

Monday May 14th 7:30pm
THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM
By George Farquhar
Adapted by Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig
Co-produced with The Acting Company
A refreshingly lusty Restoration romp replete with ribald rakes, seductive mistresses, mistaken identity, and true love.
Directed by Michael Kahn
Featuring Christian Conn, Veanne Cox and Christopher Innvar

Monday June 18th, 7:30pm
NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
World Premiere Short Plays
Eight brand new plays riffing on Red Bull Theater's mission to produce plays of heightened language and classic themes.
Directed by Anne Kaufmann and Ken Rus Schmoll
Featuring new works by John Guare and more

+All Readings are on Mondays at 7:30pm at Theater at St. Clement's, except Oct 10th as noted above. Cast and details Subject to Change.

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