About THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
n Renaissance tragedy, women who assert their sexual independence often meet a bad end: think of Juliet, Gertrude, Desdemona, and Cleopatra.
Red Bull Theater
- Oct 18
- 12 min
YOUR OWN THING: Then and Now
“If music be the food of love, play on ...” runs the famous first line of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a sensual invitation... KEEP READING
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Red Bull Theater
- Oct 17
- 4 min
YOUR OWN THING: Synopsis
The show plunges us right into the confusion of a shipwreck. Everyone bails out but the rock duo of Sebastian and Viola... KEEP READING
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Red Bull Theater
- Oct 11
- 3 min
About THE RELAPSE
Red Bull Theater's reading of John Vanbrugh's THE RELAPSE will premiere LIVE in person at 7:30 PM ET on October 24, 2022. The performance...
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Red Bull Theater
- Aug 29
- 7 min
An Introduction | The Capulets and the Montagues
Red Bull Theater is committed to expanding our repertoire by seeking out and sharing lesser-known texts that stand the test of time. This...
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Red Bull Theater
- Nov 20, 2021
- 3 min
About Ben Jonson's THE ALCHEMIST
Written while an extended bout of plague closed London theaters for two years, The Alchemist (1610) satirizes people’s susceptibility to...
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Red Bull Theater
- Oct 21, 2021
- 3 min
Pericles and Us
Get full details about our 2021 Hispanic Golden Age Classics initiative.
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Red Bull Theater
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
About LOVE IS THE GREATER LABYRINTH
Like the Minotaur itself, Sor Juana's Love is the Greater Labyrinth (Amor es más laberinto, 1689) is a chimerical mix of elements...
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Red Bull Theater
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
About SOR JUANA
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (ca.1650–1695) was a prolific Mexican writer and polymath, hailed in her own lifetime as “the Tenth Muse.”...
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Red Bull Theater
- Apr 7, 2021
- 3 min
"O miserable of happy!” | Kathleen Dimmick
Michael Barakiva’s adaptation of Paradise Lost opens with God’s Anointment of his Son...And the theater, with its physical immediacy...
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Red Bull Theater
- Apr 7, 2021
- 5 min
Milton's Great Argument | David Scott Kastan
Paradise Lost is a great poem—to my mind the greatest written in English, or possibly in any other language...
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Red Bull Theater
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
About MJ Kaufman's GALATEA | Julie Crawford
Red Bull's online benefit reading of MJ Kaufman's play GALATEA, presented in collaboration with WP THEATER, will premiere LIVE at 7:30 PM...
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Red Bull Theater
- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
About GALLATHEA | Lauren Robertson
Red Bull's online benefit reading of John Lyly's play GALLATHEA will premiere LIVE at 7:30 PM EST on Monday, March 15. A recording of the...
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Red Bull Theater
- Jan 4, 2021
- 16 min
THE AFRICAN COMPANY: CULTURE MAKERS OF EARLY AMERICA | CARLYLE BROWN
As its author The African Company Presents Richard III is both a blessing and an embarrassment for me. It is an embarrassment because...
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Red Bull Theater
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
About KEENE | David Sterling Brown
Yet, with Keene, Anchuli Felicia King accomplishes this difficult task by creating a deeply engaging play that is color-conscious, as oppos
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Red Bull Theater
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
What can we learn from AMERICAN MOOR? | Erika T. Lin
Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor interrogates these assumptions by bringing his own story to bear on Shakespeare’s tragedy.
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Red Bull Theater
- Sep 8, 2020
- 3 min
Playing with the dead in THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY | Tanya Pollard
Red Bull's livestreamed benefit reading will premiere LIVE at 7:30 PM EDT on Monday, September 14. A recording of the livestream will be...
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Red Bull Theater
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
About CORIOLANUS
The events dramatized in Coriolanus allegedly take place in the Fifth Century, B.C.E., after the city of Rome became a republic with the ous
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Red Bull Theater
- Apr 23, 2020
- 6 min
About THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
Two main actions animate The Witch of Edmonton. In one plot, an old woman, Mother Sawyer, grows angry with her neighbors for their...
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Red Bull Theater
- Apr 15, 2020
- 4 min
The Incest Paradox in Ford’s 'TIS PITY...
One of the most lurid and compelling dramas of the seventeenth-century stage, a hyped up revenge drama permeated by sex, treachery...
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