Red Bull continues Revelation Readings with THE INN AT LYDDA

10/18/2023 7:07pm


Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director; Martin Giannini, Executive Director) has announced the cast for the next offering of a new season of Revelation Readings: the in-person presentation of "The Inn at Lydda, a Meeting of Caesar and Christ," by John Wolfson, directed by Ben Prusiner. This event will premiere live and in-person Mon Nov 13 at 7:30 PM at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space (2537 B'way). Featured in the cast will be Samuel Adams, Amir Arison, Rajesh Bose, Teagle Bougere, Leovina Charles, Joe Holt, Anthony Michael Martinez, Alfredo Narciso,  Christopher Joel Onken, Jay O. Sanders and Sam Tsoutsouvas. In "The Inn at Lydda," the mortally ill Roman emperor Tiberius Caesar, hearing tales of a miraculous healer in the province of Judea, sets sail for Jerusalem for an audience with Jesus. Pausing en route in the nearby city of Lydda, he learns of the Nazarene's crucifixion only a few days earlier and is devastated, not realizing that an event later known as the Resurrection will make the meeting he seeks a possibility. Future Revelation Readings will take place online and in-person at various venues around NYC, and will include:  "The Revenge" by Edward Young, directed by Nathan Winkelstein on Mon Jan 22nd at 7:30 PM at Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp featuring Matthew Rauch.  Immensely popular in the late 18th and early 19th century, this potboiler tells a tale of a general and his new bride manipulated to tragic ends by a supposed friend. But in this tale, it is the Moor, Zanga, seeking righteous vengeance on the hated conquerors of his people, who fulfills the role of the friend turned traitor; "The Imaginary Invalid" by Molière, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Jesse Berger on Mon Feb 19th at 7:30 PM at Florence Gould Hall at FIAF, featuring Mark Linn-Baker.  In Molière’s best loved comedy, Monsieur Argan is a notorious hypochondriac whose nonexistent illnesses blind him to the con men and women (his new wife) who prey on his fears to fatten their purses. His plan: marry his daughter to a doctor so he'll have free round-the-clock on-site healthcare for the rest of his life. Newly translated by Mirabelle Ordinaire; "Antony & Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare on·   Mon March 25th at 7:30 PM at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater, featuring John Douglas Thompson. In this classic Jacobean tragedy of love and duty Cleopatra, the Egyptian Queen and the Roman general Marc Antony scandalize Egypt and Rome alike through their passionate love affair, setting off a chain of broken alliances, jealous rages and civil war; and "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare, directed by Jesse Berger Mon April 29th at 7:30 PM at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage, fFor more information please visit www.redbulltheater.com. Press contact: David Gersten & Associates (917/576-7655)...