ABOUT THE PLAY | The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Red Bull Theater's production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle on stage at the Lucille Lortel Theatre for a limited Off-Broadway engageme
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Red Bull Theater
- Mar 20
- 5 min
MEET THE CAST | THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE
A joyful celebration of the universal capacity to improvise, this delightful Elizabethan comedy is a rough and rowdy romp.
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Red Bull Theater
- Feb 21
- 4 min
FROM THE PLAYWRIGHTS | Arden of Faversham
"It’s daunting to revise a play that Shakespeare may have co-written. It seems presumptuous. So, when you cut a scene..."
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Red Bull Theater
- Feb 7
- 3 min
INSIGHTS | Arden of Faversham
Brandi K. Adams | An anonymous play first written around 1588, Arden of Faversham is not only the earliest but also one of the most striking
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Red Bull Theater
- Feb 7
- 4 min
ABOUT THE PLAY | Arden of Faversham
Tanya Pollard | Printed in 1592 with no authorial attribution, Arden of Faversham has long been seen as the most famous anonymous play
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Red Bull Theater
- Feb 7
- 4 min
MEET THE DESIGNERS | Arden of Faversham
MEET THE TEAM behind Red Bull Theater's production of Arden of Faversham.
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Red Bull Theater
- Feb 7
- 4 min
MEET THE CAST | Arden of Faversham
MEET THE CAST of Red Bull Theater's production of Arden of Faversham running March 6-April 1, 2023.
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Red Bull Theater
- Jan 30
- 5 min
About PHÈDRE
Red Bull Theater and the French Institute Alliance Française's (FIAF) reading of Jean Racine's PHÈDRE will premiere online at 7:30 PM ET.
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Red Bull Theater
- Jan 9
- 4 min
About ANIMAL MAGNETISM
Red Bull Theater's reading of Elizabeth Inchbald's ANIMAL MAGNETISM will premiere online at 7:30 PM ET on January 23, 2023. The recording...
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Red Bull Theater
- Nov 8, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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Red Bull Theater
- Oct 18, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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