Ben Jonson News

Red Bull Theater presents Monday March 23, 7pm A staged reading of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS by Philip Massinger With characters like Justice Greedy and Sir Giles Overreach, this vicious satire is a classic battle of young love versus parent's plans, bustling in the marketplace of debtors, creditors, and everyday profligates of 17th-century Nottinghamshire.

RED BULL THEATER is pleased to present REVELATION READINGS Spring Series, Three Timely Comedy Classics MONDAY MARCH 23, 7PM, A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS by Philip Massinger With characters like Justice Greedy and Sir Giles Overreach, this vicious satire is a classic battle of young love versus parent's plans, bustling in the marketplace of debtors, creditors, and everyday profligates of 17th-century Nottinghamshire.

Red Bull Theater presents Monday March 23, 7pm A staged reading of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS by Philip Massinger With characters like Justice Greedy and Sir Giles Overreach, this vicious satire is a classic battle of young love versus parent's plans, bustling in the marketplace of debtors, creditors, and everyday profligates of 17th-century Nottinghamshire.

RED BULL THEATER is pleased to present REVELATION READINGS Spring Series, Three Timely Comedy Classics MONDAY MARCH 23, 7PM, A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS by Philip Massinger With characters like Justice Greedy and Sir Giles Overreach, this vicious satire is a classic battle of young love versus parent's plans, bustling in the marketplace of debtors, creditors, and everyday profligates of 17th-century Nottinghamshire.

Three con artists, nine gullible Londoners and cash to burn - Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist is set to dazzle audiences with its big cast, fast pace and outrageous wit when it opens in Brisbane on 23 February for the first leg of its national tour. A Queensland Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare co-production, The Alchemist sees a deceitful trio of London's bottom scrapers dexterously swindle lawyers, widows, sex addicts and power hungry preachers. Victims are hoodwinked with tricks from the magic of alchemy to the art of feng shui - but will these con artists get away with it?

Three con artists, nine gullible Londoners and cash to burn - Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist is set to dazzle audiences with its big cast, fast pace and outrageous wit when it opens in Brisbane on 23 February for the first leg of its national tour. A Queensland Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare co-production, The Alchemist sees a deceitful trio of London's bottom scrapers dexterously swindle lawyers, widows, sex addicts and power hungry preachers. Victims are hoodwinked with tricks from the magic of alchemy to the art of feng shui - but will these con artists get away with it?

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2009 season ? a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights is now offering tickets to the public.

RED BULL THEATER presents on Monday September 29th 7pm a staged reading THE SILENT WOMAN by Ben Jonson adapted by Michael Kahn featuring F Murray Abraham and Dakin Matthews , Jason Butler Harner, Marcus Dean Fuller, Drew Foster, Stephen Bel Davies, Danny Scheie, John Livingston Rolle, Nicholas Galbraith, Cynthia Mace, Jennifer White, Beth Dixon, Alex Brown, Jason Kravits, Carolyn Seymour

Red Bull Theatre begins its new set of readings on September 15th and will continue until March 2nd.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival announces its 2009 season - a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights.

Red Bull Theater, artistic director Jesse Berger, announced the return of 'Revelation Readings', the Obie Award-winning reading series exploring new and classic plays of heightened language.

Barrington Stage Company, under the artistic leadership of Julianne Boyd, presents the Berkshire-area premiere of The Violet Hour, an imaginative and thought-provoking play about love, time and fate, by award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out).

Award-winning actor Chris Sullivan returns to the UK with his one man show A Bit of Irish, a theatrical evening of Irish celebration, which features poems, limericks, a multitude of stories and audience participation and opens for a limited week long season at Jermyn Street Theatre in London on St Patrick's Day, Monday 17 March, running to Saturday 22 March 2008.

The award-winning actor currently costars in 'Hunting and Gathering', the second of three plays he's in this season.

The Second Annual Capital Fringe Festival will take place from July 19 - 29, 2007

The Summer Play Festival has announced the performance schedule for its final weekend

The Summer Play Festival has announced its final week performance schedule, lasting from July 24th through July 30th

The Summer Play Festival (SPF), apart from presenting 15 shows at Theatre Row in July, will continue its advanced programming to nurture playwrights and other theatre artist

The 3rd Annual Summer Play Festival (SPF) has announced the directors who will be staging the 15 plays to be showcased at this year's festival, as well as the on sale date (June 5th)

William Shakespeare was born 440 years ago this week. 'He was not of an age, but for all time,' said Ben Jonson. So let's celebrate the man to whom all theater lovers owe a debt.