John Marston’s THE MALCONTENT kicks off Reb Bull Theater Revelation Readings series at the Lucille Lortel Theater
Lucille Lortel Theater
121 Christopher St. between Bleecker & Hudson Sts.
Select Mondays, November 16 – July 25, $42-$64, 7:30
212-352-3101
www.redbulltheater.com
The Red Bull Theater’s Obie-winning Revelation Readings series, in which the company brings back Jacobean treasures, is up and running November 16 at the Lucille Lortel Theater with John Marston’s early-seventeenth-century satire, The Malcontent. The all-star cast features Matthew Rauch, Marsha Mason, Kelley Curran, Christopher Innvar, and Christina Rouner, directed by Derek Smith. The series continues December 7 with Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy, starring Jeremy Bobb, Miriam Hyman, Whit Leyenberger, Bhavesh Patel, Raphael Nash Thompson, Alejandra Venancio, and Lisa Wolpe, with live music by Alexander Sovronsky, direction by Ben Prusiner, and a post-show discussion with Gail Kern Paster. On December 28, Carson Elrod and Jay O. Sanders are among the cast of Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour, directed by Elrod. The 2016 readings include Thomas Middleton’s A Trick to Catch the Old One (directed by Craig Baldwin and starring Steven Boyer), Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor (with Patrick Page, directed by Louisa Proske), Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (starring Chukwudi Iwuji and directed by Michael Sexton), Frances Burney’s The Woman Hater (directed by Everett Quinton and featuring Arnie Burton, Auden Thornton, and Nick Westrate), Shakespeare’s Hamlet (directed by Tom Ridgely and featuring Arian Moayed), William Congreve’s The Way of the World, and the sixth annual Short New Play Festival.