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SERIES 1: 2003
SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION
by Howard Barker
Directed by Matt August
Cast: Liam Craig, Amy Fitts, Antonia Freeland, Andrew McGinn, Colin McPhillamy, Angela Pierce Angela Reed, Baylen Thomas, David Wells
A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE
by Thomas Middleton
Directed by Randy White
Cast: Tom Beyer, Gary Brownlee, Jessica Claire, Autumn Dornfeld, David Greenspan, David Grimm, Carla Harting, Jono Hustis, Andy Laird, Florencia Lozano, Matthew Maguire, Michael Rudko, Ean Sheehey, Danielle Skraastaad, T. Ryder Smith, Dale Soules, Greg Steinbruner, Maria Thayer
TWELVE OPHELIAS
by Caridad Svich
Directed by Debbie Saivetz
Cast: Michael Escamilla, Micahel Gladis, Carla Harting, Marin Ireland, Alfredo Narciso, Alex Oliver, Stacey Robinson, Chris Wells
SAM & LUCY
by Brooke Berman
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast: Reid Burney, Jeffrey Carlson, Mary Catherin Garrison, John Bedford Lloyd, Leslie Lyles, Jeanine Serralles
MACBETH, a gender experiment
by William Shakespeare
Adapted & Directed by Tracy Bersley
Cast: Rosie Benton, Tim Brownwell, Natalie Burgess, Irving Gregory, Grisele Grullon, Steve Hamm, Nicole Kempskie, Alison Ostergaard, Russ Salmon, Kelly VanZile, Melitta von Abele, Monica Williams
WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
by Thomas Middleton, adapted by Howard Barker
Directed by Rosemary Andress
Cast: Jeff Biehl, Steve Boyer, Brandon Demery, Sarah Elliot, David Jung, Nancy Kim, Andy Laird, James Martinez, Natasha Piletich, Jeanine Serralles, Ian Tabatchnik, Michael Urie
DON JONNY
by Anton Dudley & Jonathan Spottiswoode
conceived by Jesse Berger & Jonathan Spottiswoode
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Katie Barrett, Christopher Borg, Jason Kravitz, Tony Lauria, Carol Monda, Tracie Thoms, Jon Tindle, Elenna Stauffer, Paul Whitthorne, Trevor Williams
SERIES 2: 2003-2004
DON JONNY (revised)
by Anton Dudley & Jonathan Spottiswoode
conceived by Jesse Berger & Jonathan Spottiswoode
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Katie Barrett, Deborah S Craig, Sarah Fraunfelder, Jeff LaGreca, Tony Lauria, Deven May, Carol Monda, Paul Niebanck, Michelle Shupe, Tracie Thoms, Jon Tindle, Price Waldman
A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS
by Thomas Middleton
Directed by Michael Barakiva
Cast: Edward Boroevich, Steven Boyer, Craig Bridger, Michael Goldstrom, James Hadgis, Kelly Hutchinson, Chris Kipiniak, Richard Leighton, Andrew McGinn, Orlando Pabotoy, Saxon Palmer, Dale Soules, Maria Thayer, David C Wells
THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley
Directed by David Grimm
Cast: Joanne P Adler, Damian Baldet, Larry Block, Craig Bockhorn, Marylouise Burke, Jarlath Conroy, Katie Dietz, Ryan Farley, Jono Hustis, Morgan Jenness, Aedin Moloney, Andrew McGinn, Jeremy Shamos, Ashley Strand, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Weller
DANTON'S DEATH
by Georg Büchner
translated by John Reddick
Directed by Christopher McCann
Cast: Sara Barnett, Robert Burke, Jason Butler Harner, David Chandler, Glenn Fleshler, Tom O’Brien, Jeremy Shamos, Joseph Siravo, Jenna Stern, Michael Stuhlbarg, Elizabeth Tidy
PHAEDRA
by Elizabeth Egloff
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Brandon Demery, Laura Hicks, Earle Hyman, Amy Irving, Patrick Kerr, Ruth Maleczech, Christopher McCann, Michael Stuhlbarg
KEAN
by Jean-Paul Sartre
translated by Frank Hauser
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Cast: Vivienne Benesch, Addie Brownlee, Frank Deal, Jonathan Epstein, Eric Hoffmann, Zachary Knower, Michael Milligan, Wayne Scott, Michelle Vasquez, Anne Louise Zachary
SERIES 3: 2004-2005
FORTINBRAS
by Lee Blessing
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Katie Barrett, Daniel Breaker, Michael Chernus, Jarlath Conroy, Brandon Demery, Sean Dugan, Polly Lee, Jesse Perez, Gordana Rashovich, Dallas Roberts, Paul Rudd, Wayne Scott, Raphael Nash Thompson, Margot White
THE ROMAN ACTOR
by Philip Massinger
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Cast: Opal Alladin, Jeff Biehl, Jimonn Cole, John Daggett, Ryan Farley, Kat Foster, Arthur French, Davis Hall, Pamela Nyberg, A-men Rasheed, Tom Tate, Richard Thomas, Karen Tsen Lee, Sam Tsoutsauvus
THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE
by Francis Beaumont
Directed by Christopher Bayes
Cast: Craig Baldwin, Daniel Breaker, Carolyn Bootle, Frank Deal, Melissa Gallagher, Jason Kravits, Jodi Lynne McClintock, Orlando Pabotoy, Everett Quinton, Randy Reyes, Wayne Scott, Ashley Strand, CJ Wilson
WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
by Thomas Middleton
Directed by Paul Mullins
Cast: Mary Bacon, Mia Barron, Casey Biggs, Joe Delafield, Tom Hammond, Kevin Henderson, Greg Jackson, Christopher Marino, Pamela Nyberg, Laila Robins, Henry Strozier, Jesse Pennington, Andrew Weems
DON JONNY (revised & expanded)
by Anton Dudley & Jonathan Spottiswoode
Directed by Jesse Berger
Music Direction by Jana Beth Zielonka
Cast: Howie Blau, Christopher Borg, Courtney Glass, Sarah Fraunfelder, Alicia Irving, Tony Lauria, Paul Niebanck, A-men Rasheed, Steven Ratazzi, Peter Michael Smith, Elenna Stauffer, Graham Stevens, Tracie Thoms, Aurelia Williams
RAGOZINE, or The Second-Best Bed Trick
by Michael Feingold
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Cast: Arnie Burton, Jamie Cummings, Sean Dugan, Roderick Hill, Gavin Hoffman, Grace Hsu, Nicholas Kepros, Maggie Lacey, Roberta Maxwell, Patrick Melville, Alvaro Mendoza, Darren Pettie, John Seitz, Jay Smith, T. Ryder Smith, Brian Vaughn, Jack Wetherall
SERIES 4: 2005-2006
DIDO, Queen of Carthage
by Christopher Marlowe
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Cast: Celeste Ciulla, Patrick Darragh, Richard Easton, Mercedes Herrero, Katie Firth, Monique Fowler, Robert Hock, Alvaro Mendoza, Paul Niebanck, John Livingston Rolle, James Seol, Danielle Streisand, Marc Vietor
THE SCOTTISH PLAY
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Gerry Bamman, Howard L Blau, Jesse Shane Bronstein, Julie Jesneck, Maggie Lacey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Boris McGiver, Anthony Rapp, Laila Robins, Henry Strozier, Haynes Thigpen
ORESTES
By Euripides, loosely translated by Anne Washburn
Directed by Johanna McKeon
Cast: Lia Aprile, Elliotte Crowell, Danny Deferarri, Kimberly Dilts, Jennifer Dundas, Lucas Howland, Karinne Keithley, Kristen Persinos, Lance Rubin, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak
THE MAID'S TRAGEDY
by Beaumont and Fletcher
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast:
Mary Bacon, Mia Barron, Jason Brown, Jarlath Conroy, Kimberly Dilts, Zachary Knower, Melissa Miller, Paul Niebanck, Naomi Peters, James Seol, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Tsoutsouvas, James Seol, CJ Wilson
THE MAN OF MODE, or Sir Fopling Flutter
by George Etherege
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Cast: Marie Brinkmann, Kate Burton, Bill Camp, Lynn Cohen, Dana Ivey, Peter Haring Judd, Florencia Lozano, Kathryn Merry, Olivia Oguma, Everett Quinton, James Urbaniak, Chris Wells, Aaron Yoo
PLAYHOUSE CREATURES
By April De Angelis
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
Cast: Bill Camp, Aysan Celik, Matt D’Amico, Monique Fowler, Dana Ivey, Debra Jans, Annie O’Sullivan, Naomi Peters, Samantha Soule
SERIES 5: 2006
MELISSA ARCTIC
By Craig Wright
Directed by Aaron Posner
Cast: Kelly AuCoin, Dori Legg, , David Marks, Howard Overshown, Merrill Peakes, Michael Rudko, James Sugg, Mark Sullivan, Holly Twyford, Kiah Victoria, Erin Weaver
THE BROKEN HEART
By John Ford
Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin
Cast: Sean Arbuckle, Remy Auberjonois, Mia Barron, Allan Care, Robert Cuccioli, Philip Goodwin, Matthew Greer, Daniel Harray, Sarah Hartmann, Eric Hoffmann, Claire Lautier, Tyler Pierce, Dale Soules, Michael Rudko, Raphael Nash Thompson, Margot White
THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDY
By Cyril Tourneur
Directed by Will Pomerantz
Cast: Mary Bacon, Joel Bernstein, Aaron Clayton, Kevin Collins, Frank Deal, Kenneth Garner, Dylan Greene, Chris Kelly, Mikel Sarah Lambert, Alvaro Mendoza, Pamela Nyberg, Laura O’Day, Steven Rattazi, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Jack Wetherall
SERIES 6: 2007-2008
DESDEMONA, play about a handkerchief
by Paula Vogel
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Mamie Gummer, Jessica Hecht, Jenny Ikeda
THE CHANGELING
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
Directed by Karin Coonrod
Cast: Mary Christopher, Samuel Gates, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Maguire, Matthew Maher, Kevin Massey, Griffen Matthews, Paul Niebanck, Juliana Francis, Jonathan Fried, Matthew Rauch, John D. Thompson, Tony Torn, Carsey Walker, Molly Ward
TALLGRASS GOTHIC
by Melanie Marnich
Directed by Hal Brooks
Cast: Michael Cerveris, Michael Chernus, Danelle Eliav, Julie Jesneck, Haynes Thigpen, Santino Fontana, Ana Reeder
THE JUST
by Albert Camus, adapted and newly translated by Anthony Clarvoe
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
Cast: Jeff Biehl, Brennan Brown, Denis Butkus, Meg Fee, Neal Huff, Bhavesh Patel, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ellen McLaughlin, John Seidman
THE ROVER
by Aphra Behn, adapted by John Barton
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Cast: Michelle Beck, Stephen Bel Davies, Daniel Breaker, Sam Chase, Matt D’Amico, Michael Gotch, Carla Harting, Kevin Henderson, Zachary Knower, Tony Molina, Joan Rosenfels, Molly Stuart, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Michele Vazquez, Chandler Vinton
THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING
by Christopher Fry
Directed by Joe Hardy
Cast: Arthur Bartow, Will Chase, Celeste Ciulla, Jessica Dickey, Richard Easton, Tom Lacy, Lynn Redgrave, Gareth Saxe, John Seidman, Jonathan Walker, Matt Wilkus
Bertolt Brecht’s EDWARD II
Directed by Michael Sexton
Cast: Sean Arbuckle, Hannah Cabell, Michael Cerveris, Davis Hall, Jason Butler Harner, Randy Harrison, Derek Lucci, Denis O'Hare, Matthew Rauch, Laila Robins, Daniel Stewart
THE CARDINAL
by James Shirley
Directed by Carl Forsman
Cast: Heidi Armbruster, Ross Boehringer, William Connell, Frank Deal, Ben Hollandsworth, Brian Hutchison, Stephanie Janssen, Brad Makarowski, Michael Mastro, Scott Parkinson, Joey Parsons, Matthew Rauch, Roger Rees, Thomas Jay Ryan, Sarah Stockton
SERIES 7: 2008-2009
RESTORATION COMEDY
by Amy Freed
Directed by Jesse Berger
Cast: Michael Urie, Reg Rogers, Danny Scheie, Caralyn Kozlowski, Jane Carr, Susannah Schulmann, Jeff Biehl, Gregory Wooddell, Bhama Roget, Paul Mullins, Arthur Bartow, and More...
THE SILENT WOMAN
by Ben Jonson
Directed by Art Manke
Cast: F Murray Abraham, Stephen Bel Davies, Alex Brown, Jason Butler Harner, Beth Dixon, Drew Foster, Marcus Dean Fuller, Nicholas Galbraith, Jason Kravits, Cynthia Mace, David Manis, Dakin Matthews, Danny Scheie, Carolyn Seymour, Jennifer Door White
A HORSE'S ASS
by David Greenspan, loosely adapted from Pietro Aretino’s Renaissance comedy Il Marescalco
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Cast: Don Amendolia, Satya Bhabha, Carson Elrod, David Greenspan, Francis Jue, Stephen James King, Bill Kux, Lucas Papaelias, Tony Torn
THE CENCI
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Cast: Roger Rees, Lisa Harrow, Matthew Rauch, Julie Jesneck, John Douglas Thompson, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Ben Rapoport, Ezra Knight, Emma Canalese, Vayu O'Donnell
THE MALCONTENT
by John Marston
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
Cast: Randy Harrison, Matthew Rauch, Michael Stuhlbarg, Vivienne Benesch, Caitlin O'Connell, Carson Elrod, Michael Rudko, John Seidman, Carol Halstead, Ron Bagden, Samara Bay
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by Christopher Marlowe
Directed by Michael Sexton
Cast: Patrick Page, Bill Camp, Elisabeth Waterston, Derek Smith, Sean McNall, Andre Holland, Steven Rattazzi, Robert Stanton, and more.
ELECTRICIDAD
by Luis Alfaro
Directed by Lisa Peterson
Cast: Vanessa Aspillaga, Elisa Bocanegra, Bertila Damas, Judith Delgado, Alma Martinez, James Martinez, Tony Plana, Maria Elena Ramierez, and Socorro Santiago.
THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN
by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Joe Hardy
Cast: David Anzuelo, David Margulies, Matthew Rauch, Marc Vietor, and more
THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA
by Cervantes
Directed by KJ Sanchez
Cast: Aysan Celik, Emily Ackerman, Alfredo Narciso, and more
BONUS SPRING 2009 SERIES: Three Timely Comedy Classics
A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS
by Phillip Massinger
Directed by Matthew Rauch
Cast: René Auberjonois, Max Baker, David Conrad, Drew Cortese, Robert Cuccioli, John Manieri, Laila Robins, Jeanine Seralles, Rocco Sisto, and more
A JOVIAL CREW
by Richard Brome
Adapted by Stephen Jeffreys
Directed by Rosemary Andress
Featuring Daniel Abeles, Gerry Bamman, Esther Barlow, Steve Boyer, Brenda Bush, David Chandler, Ryan Clardy, Gina Daniels, Carson Elrod, Glenn Fleshler, Mike Guango, Rebecca Hart, Paul Edward Hope, Jason Howard, Michael Izquierdo, Julie Jesneck, Tom Kelly, Marc LeVasseur, Grace McLean, Peter O'Connor, Ridley Parson, David Ross, Tarrantino Smith, Alexander Sovronsky, Lisa Velten Smith, Adam Toback, Patrick Vaill, and Molly Ward
VOLPONE
by Ben Jonson
Directed by David Esbjornson
Cast: Brian Murray, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rocco Sisto, Robert Stattel, Ned Eisenberg, Rebecca Wisocky, Tony Torn, Craig Baldwin, Vayu O'Donnell, David Patrick Kelly, Lorenzo Pisoni, Kate Roberts, Liv Rooth, Peter Bretz, and Shannon Wicks.*
SERIES 8: 2009-2010
A Benefit Reading of
TIMON OF ATHENS
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jesse Berger
Featuring Richard Easton, Harris Yulin, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Sam Tsoutsuovas with Arthur Bartow, Peter von Berg, Jason C. Brown, Denis Butkus, Melissa Condron, Helmar Augustus Cooper, Carson Elrod, Michael Izquierdo, Raphael Nash Thompson, Ben Rappaport, Kate Roberts, and Rocco Sisto.
THE WILD GOOSE CHASE
by John Fletcher
Directed by Tim Carroll
Featuring Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith David, Mary Bacon, Maha Chihlaoui, Edward Boroevich, Rob Breckenridge, Joe Costa, Blake DeLong, Bill Griffin, Deborah Jans, Alfredo Narciso, Jesse J. Perez, Ben Rappaport, Margo Seibert, and Molly Ward
PENELOPE
Book by Ellen McLaughlin
Music by Sarah Kirkland Snider
Directed by Lisa Rothe
Featuring Ellen McLaughlin
THE PRETENDERS
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Michael Meyer
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring F. Murray Abraham, Sterling K. Brown, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Elisabeth Waterston, Joel Bernstein, Aysan Celik, Nigel Gore, Delphi Harrington, Marc LeVasseur, Caitlin O'Connell, Michael Potts, Steven Skybell, Alexander Sovronsky, Nick Westratewith Live Musical Accompaniment by Alexander Sovronsky
Post-play Bull Session featuring Marvin Carlson (Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center) and Joan Templeton (President, Ibsen Society)
BÉRÉNICE
by Jean Racine
translated and adapted by Neil Bartlett
A tragic tale of true love, this pinnacle of French drama examines what real love is, even as that love cannot survive.
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Featuring Matthew Greer, Roberta Maxwell, Brian Morvant, Kathryn Meisle, Matthew Rauch, Marc Vietor, and Jack Wetherall*
Post-play Bull Session with Mirabelle Ordinaire
A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS
by Thomas Heywood
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Jeff Biehl, Michael Emerson, Tom Hammond, Eric Hoffmann, Derek Lucci, Caitlin O'Connell, Carrie Preston, Matthew Rauch, Lulu Rossbacher, Jeff Steitzer, Haynes Thigpen, Dominique Toney, Geraint Wyn Davies
featuring live music by Michael Sutherland with Annie Chang on violin
+ Post-play Bull Session with Kathleen Dimmick
THE DUKE OF MILAN
by Philip Massinger
Directed by Damon Krometis
Featuring David Anzuelo, Heidi Armbruster, Arthur Bartow, Delphi Harrington, Julie Jesneck, Daliya Karnofsky Jason Kravits, Alex Morf, Patrick Page, Steven Rattazzi, Matthew Rauch, Gerardo Rodriguez, Samantha Soule.
+ Post-play Bull Session with Edmund Miller
CALIGULA
by Albert Camus
Directed by Marc Vietor
Featuring Glenn Fleshler, Charles Geyer, Pamela Jane Gray, Davis Hall, Randy Harrison, Rick Holmes, Nancy Hume, Nicholas Kepros, Keith Perry, Henry Stram, Michael Urie and Todd Weeks
BURNING, BURNING, BURNING, BURNING
by David Bar Katz
Directed by Sarah Benson
Featuring Eric Bogosian, Christine Marie Brown, Leah Curney, Rachel Dratch, Adam Green, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Salvatore Inzerillo, Hubert Point-du Jour, Jon Krupp, Nyambi Nyambi, Vayu O'Donnell, and Amelia Workman
THE STEWARD OF THE DUCHESS OF AMALFI
by Lope de Vega
newly translated by Álvaro Mendoza
Directed by Michael John Garcés
Featuring Jorge Cordova, Gilbert Cruz, Jose Febus, Bryant Mason, Andres Munar, Ivan Quintanilla, Jesse J. Perez, Phyllis Johnson, Alvaro Mendoza, Alfredo Narciso, and Marguerite Stimpson
BRECHT’S DUCHESS OF MALFI
Adapted by Bertolt Brecht and W.H. Auden
Directed by Ian Strasfogel
Featuring Mary Bacon, Craig Baldwin, John Daggett, Stevie Ray Dallimore, Francesca Faridany, Delphi Harrington, David Landon, Alex Morf, Rebecca Nyahay, Alexander Sovronsky, Jay Stratton, Elliott Villar, and Nick Westrate
‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE
By John Ford
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring Steve Boyer, Liam Craig, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Peter Francis James, Jeffrey Hayenga, Brent Langdon, Alfredo Narciso, Kristine Nielsen, Christina Pumariega, Gayle Rankin, and more
LOVE FOR LOVE
By William Congreve
Directed by Michael Sexton
Featuring Carolyn Bauemler, Richard Easton, Jeff Biehl, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Francesca Faridany, Roderick Hill, Sean McNall, Steven Rattazzi, Erika Rolfsrud, Russell Salmon, Julie Sharbutt, Daniel Stewart, and Marc Vietor
SERIES 9: 2010-2011
September 13, 2010 - June 13, 2011
Monday September 13th, 7:30pm
GAMMER GURTON’S NEEDLE
By Mr. S. Mr. of Art
Directed by Everett Quinton
Featuring Roberta Maxwell, Rocco Sisto and Mary Testa, with Julia Campanelli, Erik Heger, Conan McCarty, Alex Morf, Grant Neale and Jenne Vath
Monday September 20th, 7:30pm
A BENEFIT READING OF
OUR BETTERS
By W. Somerset Maugham
Directed by Stuart Howard
Featuring Tovah Feldshuh, Joanna Gleason, Michael Urie, George Akram, Gerry Bamman, Justin Blanchard, Julia Coffey, Christian Conn, Stephanie Garry, Davis Hall, Miriam Silverman, Tony Roach
Monday October 25th, 7:30pm
LOVE LIES A-BLEEDING
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring Heather Lind, Santino Fontana, Aysan Celik, Matthew D'Amico, Jimmy Davis, Carol Halstead, Susan Heyward, Ashton Heyl, Karl Kenzler, Brent Langdon, Dion Mucciacito, and Brent Langdon
Post-play Bull Session with Mario DiGangi
Monday November 15th, 7:30pm
DON CARLOS
By Friedrich Schiller
New version by Mike Poulton
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Featuring Tina Benko, Bradford Cover, Daniel Davis, Richard Easton, Luke Forbes, Philip Goodwin, Cynthia Mace, Paul Mullins, Everett Quinton, Matthew Rauch, Gareth Saxe, David L. Townsend, and Jennifer van Dyck
Post-play Bull Session with Dorothea von Mücke
Monday November 29th, 7:30pm
GERTRUDE - THE CRY
By Howard Barker
In collaboration with The Barker Project
Directed by Richard Romagnoli
Featuring F. Murray Abraham, David Barlow, Kersti Bryan, Lynn Cohen, Stephanie Jannsen, Brent Langdon, Robert Emmet Lunney, and Jan Maxwell
Post-play Bull Session with Michael Bettencourt
Tuesday, December 28th, 7:30pm
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
By Thomas Kyd
Directed by Matthew Rauch
Featuring Vivienne Benesch, Jason Butler Harner, David Conrad, Maria Dizzia, Mathilde Dratwa, Jonathan Fried, Brad Fryman, Davis Hall, Eric Hoffmann, John Mainieri, Paul Niebanck, Stephen Stout, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Douglas Thompson and Sam Tsoutsouvas
Post-play Bull Session with Kathleen Dimmick
Monday January 10th, 7:30pm
THE SUICIDE
By Nikolai Erdman
Adapted by Richard Nelson
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Mary Bacon, David Barlow, Matthew Carr, Lynn Cohen, Zoe Costello, Michael Chernus, Kristine Nielsen, Everett Quinton, Kurt Rhoades, John Rothman, Jeanine Serralles, Jeremy Shamos, Michael Sutherland, and more
Monday February 7th, 7:30pm
THE WITCH
By Thomas Middleton
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Featuring Jacqueline Antaramian, Charles Borland, Aysan Celik, Jimonn Cole, Johnny Lee Davenport, Nigel Gore, Carol Halstead, Mahira Kakkar, Jacob Knoll, David Manis, Michael Milligan, Kevin O'Donnell, Lori Prince, Ben Prusiner, Tijuana Ricks, Dale Soules, Greg Thornton, and Brandy Zarle
Post-play Bull Session with Tanya Pollard
Monday February 14th, 7:30pm
VINEGAR TOM
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Wendy McClellan
Live Music by Rona Figueroa and her Band
Featuring Heidi Armbruster, Michelle Beck, Annika Boras, Laura Esterman, Christopher Gerson, Susan Heyward, Ruth Maleczech, Charlotte Parry, Darren Pettie, and Aleksandra Szczepanowska
Post-play Bull Session with Jean Howard
Monday March 28th, 7:30pm
TROY WOMEN
By Euripides
A brutally compelling portrait of woman during war, in an ecstatic contemporary adaptation.
New version by Karen Hartman
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Live Music by Aaron Hartman, Elaina Morgan, Alicia Jo Rabins (of Girls in Trouble)
Featuring Craig Baldwin, Lucy DeVito, Autumn Dornfeld, Mia Katigback, Sue Jean Kim, Annie McNamara, Estelle Parsons, Keith Randolph Smith, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Rita Wolf
Post-play Bull Session with Helene Foley, Professor of Classics, Barnard College
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 Zach Grenier, Kathryn Meisle and Omar Metwally
Post-play Bull Session with Doug Wright
Monday May 9th, 7:30pm
MONTSERRAT
An adaptation by Lillian Hellman
From the French play by Emmanuel Robles
Directed by Stella Powell-Jones
Co-produced by Jack Doulin
Featuring Jonathan Cake, Santino Fontana, Raul Aranas, Scott Barrow, Brandon Dirdin, Gibson Frazier, Erin Gann, Aaron Clifton Moten, Richard O'Brien, Gayle Rankin, Jeanine Serralles, Marc Vietor, and Leigh Wade
Post-play Bull Session with Mirabelle Ordinaire
Monday May 23rd, 7:30pm
WILD OATS
By John O’Keefe
Featuring Bill Buell, Richard Easton, Carson Elrod, Jack Freimann, Matthew Greer, Sloan Grenz, Patricia Hodges, David Manis, Dakin Matthews, Kern McFadden, Michael Milligan, Tuck Milligan, Samantha Soule, Robert Stanton, Aaron Galligan Stierle, Tony von Halle, Margot White, Gregory Wooddell
Directed by Patrick Page
Monday June 13th, 7:30pm
NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
World Premiere Short Plays by Liz Duffy Adams, Mike Anderson, Heidi Armbruster, Elizabeth Egloff, David Grimm, Wendy MacLeod, Elizabeth Miller, and Jason Gray Platt.
Featuring Phil Ashby, Craig Baldwin, Tina Benko, Annika Boras, Malcolm Ingram, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Deanne Lorette, Kate MacCluggage, Alfredo Narciso, Rocco Sisto, Andrew Weems, Emily Clare Zempel
Directed by Timothy Douglas and Wendy McClellan
SERIES 10: 2011-2012
September 19, 2010 - June 18, 2011
Monday September 19th, 7:30pm
NO EXIT
By Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
This quintessential existentialist play is a passionate examination of free will, personal responsibility, and eternal punishment.
Directed by Wendy McClellan
Featuring Matt Cody, Adam Green, Kathryn Meisle, Larry Pine, and Carrie Preston
post-play Bull Session with Mirabelle Ordinaire
Monday October 10th, 7:30pm
VOLPONE
By Ben Jonson
Featuring F. Murray Abraham, Helen Carey, Richard Easton, Liv Rooth, Jay O. Sanders, Teale Sperling, Brendan Spieth, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Raphael Nash Thompson, Michael Urie, Marc Vietor, and Gregory Wooddell
Directed by Jesse Berger
Monday October 31st, 7:30pm
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR
By Lauren Gunderson
This new revenge comedy is a razor-sharp feminist power-ballad set in the North Georgian mountains with a Jacobean twist – perfect for Halloween.
Directed by Jackson Gay
Featuring Cassie Beck, Patrick Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Preston Martin, and Lauren Gunderson
Monday November 7th, 7:30pm
THE AENEID
By Olivier Kemeid
Translated by Judith G. Miller
Inspired by Virgil, this powerful new play transports Aeneas’s search for a homeland into the modern world of middle-eastern revolution.
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Michelle Beck, Michael Cerveris, Mia Barron, Aysan Celik, Sevan Greene, Melissa House, Estelle Parsons, Tommy Schrider, Matt C. Webb, Rasha Zamamiri
Music by Duncan Sheik
Monday November 28th, 7:30pm
THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY
By Thomas Dekker
This sweet-natured comedy about Elizabethan life by one of the authors of The Witch of Edmonton is a romantic delight.
Directed by Everett Quinton
Featuring Justin Blanchard, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Eureka, Adam Green, Lara Knox, Brent Langdon, Roberta Maxwell, Everett Quinton, André De Shields, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Alex Morf, Christina Pumariega, Miriam Silverman, Nomi Tichman, and Margot White
post-play Bull Session with Jean Howard
Monday December 5th, 7:30pm
TRAVESTIES OF SHAKESPEARE
A Talk by John Wolfson
Travesties of Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment in Victorian England. They began as satires on the first "critical editions" of Shakespeare's plays, and then took over the stage. John Wolfson, Curator of Rare Books of London's Globe Theatre, traces the development of the Travesty, featuring scenes with Randy Harrison and John Douglas Thompson.
Monday, December 26th, 7:30pm
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
By Nikolai Gogol
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Jesse Berger
Featuring Phil Ashby, Laurie Birmingham, Glenn Fleshler, Adam Green, David Greenspan, Eric Hoffmann, Jesse J. Perez, Marsha Mason, Christopher McCann, Everett Quinton, Miriam Silverman, Derek Smith, Henry Stram and Stephen Spinella
Monday January 9th, 7:30pm
PIRANDELLO'S HENRY IV
In a new version by Tom Stoppard
Featuring Richard Easton, John Elison Conlee, Jennifer Ehle, Victor Garber, Darren Goldstein, Aaron Krohn, Mamie Gummer, Patrick Page, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Benjamin Walker, and Paxton Whitehead
Directed by Jack O'Brien
post-play Bull Session with Roger Oliver
Monday January 23rd, 7:30pm
A KING AND NO KING
By Beaumont & Fletcher
Absolute power corrupts absolutely deliciously in this sensational Jacobean tragicomedy.
Directed by Michael Sexton
Featuring Craig Baldwin, Michelle Beck, Guy Boyd, Geordie Broadwater, Joel de la Fuente, Bryce Gill, Jennifer Ikeda, Mark Nelson, Matthew Rauch, Robert Stanton, Ryan Brooke Taylor, Sam Tsoutsouvas, and More
Monday February 6th, 7:30pm
LORENZACCIO
By Alfred de Musset
Translated and Adapted by John Strand
Known as the French Hamlet, a sensational tale of politics, murder, and betrayal set in Renaissance Italy.
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Featuring David Barlow, Chris Bresky, Jason C. Brown, Celeste Ciulla, Daniel Davis, Philip Goodwin, Eric Hoffmann, Melissa House, Jennifer Ikeda, Aaron Krohn, Carman Lacivita, Cynthia Mace, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Rauch, Kurt Rhoads and Rasha Zamamiri
post-play Bull Session with John Strand
Monday March 19th, 7:30pm
THE BALCONY
By Jean Genet
Translated by Jean-Claude van Itallie
Role-playing is a volatile aphrodisiac inside Madame’s house of illusion as the world outside erupts in violent revolution.
Directed by David Herskovits
Featuring Amy Irving, with Will Badgett, Alan Benditt, Mary Cavett, Nehassaiu deGannes, James Tigger! Ferguson, Nadia Gans, John Kurzynowski, Kristine Haruna Lee, Nana Mensah, Samantha Needles, Edward O'Blenis, Hubert Point-du Jour, Randolph Curtis Rand, Clayton Dean Smith, and More
post-play Bull Session with Jean-Claude van Itallie
Monday March 26th, 7:30pm
THE SCREENS
By Jean Genet
Translated by Paul Schmidt
This epic exploration of the Algerian Arab revolt against their French colonizers exalts the individual and relishes the theatrical.
Directed by Tracy Cameron Francis
Featuring Heather Raffo, Najla Said, Carlo Alban, Dahlia Azama, Ronan Babbitt, Farah Bala, Hunter Canning, Neimah Djourabchi, Rich Dreher, Ramsey Faragallah, Sevan Greene, Maria Helan, Mia Katigbak, Bushra Laskar, Piter Marek, Chris Masullo, Sade Namei, Jens Rasmussen, Betty Shamieh, Kate Skinner, and More, plus Tabla by Zafer Tawil
Post-play Bull Session with Judith Miller
Monday April 30th, 7:30pm
THE RENEGADO
By Philip Massinger
A fascinating Jacobean romance explores the Islamic Middle-East through a wild tale of international commerce, religious difference, and forbidden love.
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring Ron Cephas Jones, Ramsey Faragallah, Lanna Joffrey, Omar Koury, Megan McQuillan, Dion Mucciacito, Bhavesh Patel, Chris Perfetti, Steven Rattazzi, Emily Swallow, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Finn Wittrock
post-play Bull Session with Gavin Hollis
Monday May 14th, 7:30pm
THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM
By George Farquhar
Adapted by Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig
Co-produced with The Acting Company
A refreshing adaptation of a lusty Restoration romp replete with ribald rakes, seductive mistresses, mistaken identity, and true love. Directed by Stephen Fried.
Featuring Julia Coffey, Christian Conn, Patricia Conolly, Veanne Cox, Glenn Fleshler, Christopher Innvar, Julie Jesneck, Dakin Matthews, Everett Quinton, Gareth Saxe, Michelle Tauber, Henry Vick, and Andrew Weems
Monday June 18th, 7:30pm
NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
World Premiere short plays of heightened language, classic themes and styles directed by Craig Baldwin and Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Featuring new works by Constance Congdon, Dave Carley, John Guare, Sam Lahne, Mark O'Donnell, Eric Pfeffinger, Natalia Savvides, and Jen Silverman
With Tina Benko, Michael Braun, Kristin Griffith, Zabryna Guevara, Angela Lin, Tobias Segal, John Sharian, Sam Tsoutsouvas, CJ Wilson, and More
SERIES 11: 2012-2013 Season
October 12, 2012 - May 13, 2013
Monday October 22nd, 7:30pm
THE MISER
by Moliere
Starring Richard Kind
Adapted and Directed by Doug Hughes
With amorous plotting, jealousy and money-grubbing, this rollicking satire of greed has undiminished power to amuse and to sting.
With Steven Boyer, Rachel Brosnahan, Andrew Hovelson. Richard Kind, TR Knight, Nicole Lowrance, Jan Maxwell, John Procaccino, Reg Rogers, Richard Thomas, John Tillotson, and Marc Vietor
Season kick-off party with the actors, special guests Vivienne Benesch, Emily Bergl, Veanne Cox, Kristine Nielsen, Amanda Quaid, Tovah Feldshuh, Dana Ivey, Ana Reeder, Laila Robins, André De Shields, Miriam Silverman, Rocco Sisto, Gregory Wooddell and more follows the reading.
Monday November 12, 7:30pm
SARDANAPALUS
By Lord Byron
The story of the last king of Assyria and his decadent reign told through Byron’s exquisite poetry.
In partnership with The NYU Department of English
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
With Amir Arison, Jeremy Bobb, Michael Braun, Chris Coffey, Ben Baron Diskant, Jennifer Ferrin, Mahira Kakkar, Nick Kowalczyk, Bhavesh Patel, Sam Tsoutsouvas and More
Monday December 10, 7:30pm
SWANSONG
By Patrick Page
Based on true events between peers Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, this is a moving tale of a dramatic friendship.
Directed by Roger Rees
Featuring Patrick Page and Tom Hammond, with Michael Littig and Tom Bloom
Monday December 17, 7:30pm
THE ALCHEMIST
By Ben Jonson
The antics of three con-artists and their giddy schemes make for a vivid depiction of human folly.
Directed by Michael Sexton
With J. Smith-Cameron, Carson Elrod, Jay O. Sanders, Roderick Hill, Kathleen Wise, Cary Donaldson, Bill Buell, Steve Rosen, David Barlow, Tom Nelis, Sam Tsoutsouvas, and CJ Wilson
Monday January 14, 7:30pm
THE WHITE DEVIL
By John Webster
A black-as-pitch Jacobean tragedy, rife with Machiavellian characters – each more brutal and libidinous than the next.
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Tina Benko, Rob Campbell, Cameron Folmar, Sevan Greene, Andre Holland, Matt Hurley, Darius Homayoun, Florencia Lozano, Christopher McCann, Eugene Oh, Bhavesh Patel, Everett Quinton, Judith Roberts, Nick Westrate, Rasha Zamamiri
Monday February 11, 7:30pm
THE LIAR
By David Ives
Adapted from the comedy by Corneille
An outrageous new version of a joyful Parisian farce – All the world's a lie and all the men and women, merely liars!
Directed by Jesse Berger
Featuring Jeremy Bobb, Drew Cortese, Richard Easton,Adam Green, Melissa House, Hoon Lee, Liv Rooth, Jeanine Serralles, Miriam Silverman
Monday February 25, 7:30pm
A LAUGHING MATTER
By April de Angelis
An irreverent romp and an insightful look at the writing and original production of "She Stoops to Conquer" - featuring Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Dr Johnson & More.
With Julia Coffey, Brett Dalton, Patch Darragh, Francesca Faridany, Rachel Spencer Hewitt, Daniel Jenkins, Jimmy Kiefer, Kathleen McNenny, Kathryn Meisle, Jenny Mercein, Andy Murray, Daniel Pearce, Ben Shenkman, and Rocco Sisto
Directed by Vivienne Benesch
Monday March 11, 7:30pm
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
By Oliver Goldsmith
Never has the dysfunctional family been more blissfully funny than in this comic masterpiece.
Directed by Mark Lamos
Featuring Matt Amendt, Emily Bergl, Daniel Breaker, Michael Gotch, Marsha Mason, Richard Poe, Liv Rooth, Allen Kennedy, Stephen Pilkington, Dina Thomas, Eric Hoffmann, Jeffrey Kuhn, Paxton Whitehead
SPECIAL EVENT
Monday March 25, 7:30pm
SHAKESPEARE AND THE SONNETS
Explore the Inner Life of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
John Wolfson, Curator of Rare Books, Globe Theatre, explains how the sonnets related to Shakespeare’s personal life, and how scholars have interpreted and mis-interpreted them.
Tickets Only $20 Regular / $40 Premium for this unique evening of and witty, incisive scholarship and passionate acting featuring Randy Harrison and Byron Jennings
SONNETS & SPASSO TASTING SALON
*VIP Premium $150 Tickets includes 4-course post-play tasting menu and wine pairings at Spasso including conversation with John Wolfson, Byron Jennings, and other special guests.
SPECIAL EVENT
Monday April 15, 8pm
STRINDBERG SOUNDSCAPES
Starring David Strathairn, Matthew Rauch and Jennifer Ehle
Readings of Strindberg's THE STRONGER and PARIAH alongside William Walton’s “Facade,” and "Songs of War and Loss" by Anthony Plog, based on poems by Walt Whitman.
Special Benefit Tickets Only $60
*Please note this special event will take place St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 69th Street.
Plays Directed by Craig Baldwin. Music Arranged by Paul Lustig Dunkel
Monday April 22, 7:30pm
A DREAM PLAY
By August Strindberg
Adapted by Caryl Churchill
This surreal masterpiece, in a thrilling new adaptation, conjures the vision of an angel come to earth to learn about mankind.
Directed by Craig Baldwin
Featuring Jayne Houdyshell, Michael Cristofer, Marin Ireland, Joel de la Fuente, Samantha Soule, Brian Avers, Sue Jean Kim, Keith Randolph Smith, Don Guillory, Andrew Durand
Monday April 29, 7:30pm
THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON
By J.M. Barrie
Adapted and Directed by Marc Vietor
"Downton Abbey" meets "Survivor" in this brilliant satire in which class and character are cataclysmically up-ended, from the creator of Peter Pan.
Featuring Dana Ivey, Juliet Rylance, Carson Elrod, Paxton Whitehead, Bryce Pinkham, David Turner, Paul Niebanck, Phillipa Soo, Hannah Cabell, Pearl Rhein, Bill Army + live music & surprise guest appearances
Monday May 13, 7:30pm
SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
World Premiere Short Plays
Eight brand new plays riffing on Red Bull Theater's mission to produce plays of heightened language and classic themes.
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