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Peter Jay Sharp Theater
416 West 42nd
Street (between
9th and 10th
Avenue)
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St. or the N/Q/R or
1/9 to Times Square
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Alliance Parking, 500
West 43rd
Street at
10th Avenue
Red Bull Theater is 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.
Red Bull Theater takes its name from one of the leading theaters in London during Shakespeare's era, built around 1600. The original Red Bull was often raided by the authorities for performing "drolls" when it was illegal to perform plays, and it was the first of the English theaters to reopen after the years of Puritan rule during which plays were banned. Embracing this rejuvenating spirit, Red Bull Theater aims to be in the vanguard of a new classical theater for the new century, creating a home for plays of heightened language and epic expression in intimate, imaginative productions.
Shakespeare wrote over half his plays under the rule of King James. Some thirty other major playwrights also flourished during this time, producing hundreds of plays. Compared to the kind of writing for the theater that had been common during Queen Elizabeth's reign, the Jacobean plays differ markedly in their subject matter, language, and style. Red Bull Theater embraces these plays as the touchstone of its work, aiming to explore plays of a vigorously heightened language, new and old, from many different periods and cultures.
For more information about our work and plans, please contact us.
Founded in 2002, Red Bull Theater's first production, Shakespeare's Pericles, burst onto the theatrical scene in the spring of 2003 at the Culture Project. Our popular Revelation Reading series was inaugurated that spring, and has since presented nearly 30 standing-room only staged readings of new and classic plays, garnering Red Bull Theater an OBIE Award in 2006. In 2004, Red Bull Theater began a student outreach program called "Direct Address" with Bronx Middle School 391, which continues today, and in 2005-6, Red Bull Theater's production of The Revenger's Tragedy played for an extended Off Broadway run at the Culture Project. In 2007, Red Bull Theater moved to a new home at Playwrights Horizons intimate and flexible Peter Jay Sharp Theater, presenting a new 9-play series of Revelation Readings, inaugurating a new play presentation program called In The Raw, and producing the first Off-Broadway revival of Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second in over 30 years, in a world premiere adaptation by Garland Wright.
Click here for information on our past productions.
(click on the names below to view the staff member's bio)
Allan Arffa
Jesse Berger
Bradley McCormick
Howard Owens
Development Committee
Sam Chase, Mary Collins, Vera D'Elisa, Sandra Garner, Kathy Hood, Peter Haring Judd, Ilana Kats, Kevin Mandel, George W. Mayer, Jr., Ian Strasfogel, Molly Tack, John Yavroyan, Joan Young |
Advisory Board
Tim Carroll, Elizabeth Egloff, Carl Forsman, Joseph A Hardy, Stuart Howard, Michael Kahn, David Leong, Jason Loewith, Cynthia Mayeda, Elizabeth Smith, Henry Woronicz |
Artistic Associates
John Arnone, Christopher Bayes, Tracy Bersley, Daniel Breaker, Daniel Fish, Eleanor Holdridge, Claire Lautier, Kay Matschullat, Ethan McSweeny, Matthew Rauch, Clint Ramos, Marc Vietor, Peter West, and many more |
Angels
New York State Council on the Arts
Saints
Allan Arffa
Brandon Fradd
Rogers Family Foundation
Tony Randall Theatrical Fund
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Royals
Anonymous
Brandon Fradd
Carol and Ron Berger
Estate of Lydia Foley
Hamptons Shakespeare Festival
Howard Owens
Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Heroes
Diane and Adam Max
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
JP Morgan Chase Regrant Fund,
a project of A.R.T./New York
Michael H. and Betty P. Rauch
Michael Tuch Foundation |
*reflects contributions made between March 2007 and February 2008. We are very grateful to all our supporters! |
Please consider supporting our work by making a gift to Red Bull Theater. Ticket sales account for less than 50% of our revenue. Contribute online here:
Mailed donations to:
Red Bull Theater
PO Box 250863
New York NY 10025
Red Bull Theater is a 501(c) 3 incorporated non-profit company. All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
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