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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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Jan 30, 20235 min read
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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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Jan 9, 20234 min read
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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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Nov 8, 20224 min read
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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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Oct 18, 202212 min read
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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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Oct 17, 20224 min read
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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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Oct 11, 20223 min read
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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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Aug 29, 20227 min read
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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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Nov 20, 20213 min read
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Pericles and Us
Get full details about our 2021 Hispanic Golden Age Classics initiative.
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Oct 21, 20213 min read
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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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Sep 23, 20213 min read
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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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Sep 15, 20212 min read
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"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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Apr 7, 20213 min read
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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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Apr 7, 20215 min read
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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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Mar 18, 20213 min read
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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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Mar 12, 20213 min read
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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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Jan 4, 202116 min read
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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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Oct 16, 20203 min read
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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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Oct 8, 20203 min read
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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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Sep 8, 20203 min read
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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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May 15, 20203 min read
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