2010-2011 READING SERIES
September 13, 2010 - June 13, 2011
Monday September 13th, 7:30pm
GAMMER GURTON’S NEEDLE
By Mr. S. Mr. of Art
Join this hilarious search for a needle in the haystack of pre-Shakespearean sex.
Directed by Everett Quinton
Featuring Roberta Maxwell, Rocco Sisto and Mary Testa
Post-play Bull Session
Monday September 20th, 7:30pm
A BENEFIT READING OF
OUR BETTERS
By W. Somerset Maugham
Directed by Stuart Howard
Featuring Tovah Feldshuh, Joanna Gleason and Michael Urie
A delightful and delicious satire on American ethics from the pen of one of England’s most de-lovely writers.
VIP Cocktail party with the actors, special guests, and entertainment follows the reading.
Special guests include Daniel Davis, Maria Dizzia, Everett Quinton, Matthew Rauch, Rocco Sisto, and more.
$100 Reading & Party | $250 Premium Benefit Seating
Monday October 25th, 7:30pm
LOVE LIES A-BLEEDING
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Love, lust and lies... This Jacobean romance doesn't just tug at the heart-strings, it tears them to pieces.
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring Heather Lind
Post-play Bull Session
Monday November 15th, 7:30pm
DON CARLOS
By Friedrich Schiller
New version by Mike Poulton
The German Hamlet, this sweeping historical drama is also a cry for individual liberty from tyranny and terror.
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Featuring Daniel Davis and Matthew Rauch
Post-play Bull Session
Monday November 29th, 7:30pm
GERTRUDE - THE CRY
By Howard Barker
The passion of Hamlet’s mother is at the center of this savagely poetic tragedy.
In collaboration with The Barker Project
Directed by Richard Romagnoli
Featuring F. Murray Abraham and Jan Maxwell
Post-play Bull Session
Tuesday, December 28th, 7:30pm
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
By Thomas Kyd
The first and bloodiest of the revenge tragedies. A harrowing exploration of jealousy and madness.
Directed by Matthew Rauch
Featuring Maria Dizzia and Michael Stuhlbarg
Post-play Bull Session with Kathleen Dimmick
Monday January 10th, 7:30pm
THE SUICIDE
By Nikolai Erdman
Adapted by Richard Nelson
Banned by Stalin, a farcical look at the relationship between the individual citizen and society’s ideals.
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos
Post-play Bull Session
Monday February 7th, 7:30pm
THE WITCH
By Thomas Middleton
Something wickedly funny this way comes from the author of Women Beware Women, featuring Hecate, the queen witch from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Post-play Bull Session with Jean Howard
Monday February 14th, 7:30pm
VINEGAR TOM
By Caryl Churchill
A Brechtian take on gender and power, set amidst the witchcraft trials of 17th Century England.
Directed by Wendy McClellan
Post-play Bull Session with Jean Howard
Monday March 28th, 7:30pm
TROY WOMEN
By Euripides
New version by Karen Hartman
A brutally compelling portrait of woman during war, in an ecstatic contemporary adaptation.
Post-play Bull Session
Monday April 25th, 7:30pm
CREDITORS
By August Strindberg
New version written and directed by Doug Wright
A diabolical treatise on the darker side of love.
Featuring Bill Camp, Kathryn Meisle, and Omar Metwally
Post-play Bull Session
Monday May 9th, 7:30pm
MONTSERRAT
An adaptation by Lillian Hellman
From the French play by Emmanuel Robles
Set during Spain's occupation of Venezuela in 1812, the story of an atrocity committed by an occupying force and the agonizing act of conscience by one Spanish junior officer.
Post-play Bull Session
Monday May 23rd, 7:30pm
WILD OATS
By John O’Keefe
A riotous comic affair replete with Shakespearean innuendo and rakish Restoration wit.
Directed by Patrick Page
Featuring Reg Rogers
Post-play Bull Session
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.
Featuring new plays by Elizabeth Egloff, and more TBA
+All Readings are on Mondays at 7:30pm (unless noted otherwise).
+Cast and details Subject to Change.
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Location (unless noted otherwise)
Theater at St Clement’s
423 West 46th St, between 9th/10th Avenue
Subway: A/C/E to 42nd Street, Exit on 44th Street
Parking: 415 West 45th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues