As a theater company, the essence of our work is to gather people together to share stories and acts of imagination. So what’s a theater company to do when everyone must stay home? We’ve gone digital with Red Bull Theater LIVE benefit livestream readings.
UPCOMING READINGS
BENEFIT READING
PARADISE LOST
by JOHN MILTON
directed and adapted by MICHAEL BARAKIVA
Presented in Two Parts
Mondays, April 12 & 26, 2021 | 7:30 PM EDT
LIVESTREAM
BENEFIT READING
SEJANUS HIS FALL
by BEN JONSON
directed and adapted by NATHAN WINKELSTEIN
Mondays, May 17, 2021 | 7:30 PM EDT
LIVESTREAM
SPECIAL BENEFIT READING
VOLPONE, OR THE FOX
by BEN JOHNSON
directed by JESSE BERGER
Monday, June 14, 2021 | 7:30 PM EDT
LIVESTREAM
SAVE THE DATES
Monday, July 12
SPECIAL EVENT BENEFIT READING
Short New Play Festival
2021 EDITION
8 Premiers in 1 Night!
Submissions open in January
PAST EVENTS
BENEFIT READING
GALATEA
by MJ KAUFMAN
directed by WILL DAVIS
Monday, March 22, 2021
LIVESTREAM RECORDING
Presented in association with WP THEATER
BENEFIT READING
GALLATHEA
by JOHN LYLY
directed by EMMA ROSA WENT
LIVESTREAM RECORDING
Monday, March 15, 2021
Presented in association with THE DRAMA LEAGUE
BENEFIT READING
THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM
by HANNAH COWLEY
LIVESTREAM RECORDING
Recorded January 22, 2021
Recording disappeared Friday, January 26.
SPECIAL EVENT BENEFIT READING
THE WOMAN HATER
by FRANCES BURNEY
LIVESTREAM RECORDING
Recorded January 25, 2021
Recording disappeared Friday, January 29.
BENEFIT READING
THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III
by CARLYLE BROWN
LIVESTREAM RECORDING
Recorded January 11, 2021
Recording disappeared Friday, January 15.
LIVE BENEFIT READING
A KING AND NO KING
by FRANCIS BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER
LIVESTREAM RECORDING
Recorded December 14, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, December 19.
BENEFIT READING
THE COURAGE TO RIGHT A WOMAN'S WRONGS
VALOR, AGRAVIO Y MUJER
by ANA CARO
Presented in association with Diversifying the Classics | UCLA
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, November 16, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, November 20 at 7:00PM EST.
KEENE
by ANCHULI FELICIA KING
Monday, October 19, 2020 | 7:30 PM EDT
Presented in association with
American Shakespeare Center
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, October 19, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, October 23 at 7:00PM EDT.
An Informal Benefit Reading
AMERICAN MOOR
by KEITH HAMILTON COBB
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, October 12, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, October 16 at 7:00PM EDT.
THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY
A new version by JESSE BERGER
Freely adapted from the original text by Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur, or Anonymous
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, September 14, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, September 18 at 7:00PM EDT.
Jeffrey Hatcher's
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
from Nikolai Gogol's Revizor
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, June 15, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, June 19 at 7:00PM EDT.
Recording disappeared Friday, May 22 at 7:29 PM EDT.
Thomas Dekker, John Ford & William Rowley's
THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, May 4, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, May 8 at 7:29 PM EDT.
John Ford's
'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE
LIVESTREAMED
Monday, April 20, 2020
Recording disappeared Friday, April 24 at 7:29 PM EDT.
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RED BULL THEATER LIVE is designed to engage you and our entire community with something stimulating and of genuine value–a unique way to experience some of the plays that we have produced Off-Broadway read by members of the original companies. All of us at Red Bull Theater hope you and yours are safe, healthy, and staying as sane as possible during this difficult time.
Red Bull Theater wishes to express its gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, and SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.