| RED BULL THEATER will stream Ben Jonson’s THE ALCHEMIST, the acclaimed Off-Broadway hit comedy, in January | |
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| RED BULL THEATER Continues Its Hybrid Season with On Demand Video Streaming of Ben Jonson's THE ALCHEMIST The Acclaimed Off-Broadway Engagement at New World Stages Must End This Sunday Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director | Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) announced today that it will video capture the closing performance of its acclaimed Off-Broadway production of The Alchemist for future on-demand streaming. The World Premiere adaptation of Ben Jonson's classic comedy, by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Jesse Berger, the team that created the hit comedy The Government Inspector, will play its final performance this Sunday December 19th at 7PM. The non-profit organization plans to offer the high-definition, multi-camera recording on demand next month for two weeks only. The stream will be offered as pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation. The online streaming period is planned for Wednesday January 12th through January 26th. More details will be announced soon. "We returned to producing in-person Off-Broadway with The Alchemist just as quickly as we could because being together is essential — live theater is one of things that makes our lives worth living. With this timely (and timeless) comedy, we're very pleased to have been able to provide our community an occasion to gather for the much-needed release of laughter! We're thrilled to have played for appreciative, in-person audiences for the past six weeks of our limited engagement. We have worked diligently to do so safely and with the health of our entire community in mind. Still, we hear from people almost every day who express that they are still not ready to return to in-person theater. People who would have missed The Alchemist. So we're delighted to be able to share the joy of our show—and the hilarious performances of this extraordinary cast—directly with them," said Berger. "Over the past twenty months, in the midst of a global shutdown, we shared our work online in meaningful ways with more than 200,000 people from areas near and far. We plan to continue to provide these online-only experiences that help to serve our mission to revitalize the classics for these new audiences. But let's be honest, we simply can't wait to share what we do best with them, too. Something that doesn't involve Zoom boxes. Something that seeks to capture at least a little of the thrill of live, in-person theater. And we think this stream will do just that," added Bredeson. Remaining performances at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) continue through Sunday, December 19th with the following schedule: Friday, December 17 | 8:00 PM Saturday, December 18 | 2:00 PM Saturday, December 18 | 8:00 PM Sunday, December 19 | 2:00 PM Sunday, December 19 | 7:00 PM To purchase tickets for remaining performances, visit Telecharge.com, call (212) 239-6200, or visit the New World Stages box office (daily, after 1pm). Featured in the cast are Nathan Christopher (Red Bull debut); Stephen DeRosa (Red Bull: The Government Inspector; Broadway: Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, The Nance, Into the Woods, The Man Who Came to Dinner); Carson Elrod (Bway: Peter and The Starcatcher, Reckless, Noises Off; Off-Bway: The Tempest, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well - NYSF; The Liar, The Heir Apparent - CSC); Manoel Felciano (Red Bull: The Changeling; Bway: To Kill a Mockingbird, Amélie, Sweeney Todd - Tony nomination); Teresa Avia Lim (Bway: Junk - Lincoln Center Theater; Off-Bway: Caesar and Cleopatra - GTG, The Taming of the Shrew - Public Theater); Jacob Ming-Trent (Falstaff in Shakespeare in the Park's Merry Wives, Lortel Award winner - Father Comes Home From the Wars..., Panda in HBO's "Watchmen"); Louis Mustillo ("Mike & Molly," Bartenders - OCC nomination Best Solo Performance); Reg Rogers (Bway: Tootsie, The Royal Family - OCC nominations; The Iceman Cometh, Present Laughter, The Big Knife and Holiday - Tony and Drama Desk nominations. The Dazzle - OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards); Jennifer Sánchez (Bway: Pretty Woman, On Your Feet, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown); and Allen Tedder (Bway: To Kill a Mockingbird; King Lear - Shakespeare in the Park). The creative team includes Alexis Distler (scenic design), Tilly Grimes (costumes), Cha See (lighting), Greg Pliska (sound), and Tommy Kurzman (wigs and makeup). Ben Jonson's Jacobean jack-in-the-box of a play is a side-splitting, screwball farce of magical proportions. London. 1610. It's plague time again. When a wealthy gentleman flees to the country, his trusted servant opens his house to a pair of con artists and sets up a den of criminal capitalism. Claiming alchemical powers, the quick-witted trio fleece an onslaught of greedy sheep with their virtuosic ability to improvise amidst increasingly frantic comings and goings. It's comic gold with dupes, double-dupes, duels, disguises, and a lucky flea named "Lewis." Red Bull Theater, hailed as "the city's gutsiest classical theater" by Time Out New York, brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences, uniting a respect for tradition with a modern sensibility. Named for the rowdy Jacobean playhouse that illegally performed plays in England during the years of Puritan rule, Red Bull Theater is New York City's home for dynamic performances of great plays that stand the test of time. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as its cornerstone, the company also produces new works that are in conversation with the classics. A home for artists, scholars and students, Red Bull Theater delights and engages the intellect and imagination of audiences, and strives to make its work accessible, diverse, and welcoming to all. Red Bull Theater believes in the power of great classic stories and plays of heightened language to deepen our understanding of the human condition, in the special ability of live theater to create unique, collective experiences, and the timeless capacity of classical theater to illuminate the events of our times. Variety agreed, hailing Red Bull's work as: "Proof that classical theater can still be surprising after hundreds of years." Since its debut in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare's Pericles starring Daniel Breaker, Red Bull Theater has served adventurous theatergoers with Off-Broadway productions, Revelation Readings, and the annual Short New Play Festival. The company also offers outreach programs including Shakespeare in Schools bringing professional actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms; Bull Sessions, free post-play discussions with top scholars; and Classical Acting Intensives led by veteran theater professionals. During the pandemic, Red Bull responded swiftly to the shutdown, creating several ongoing programs to serve audiences and artists with our mission: RemarkaBULL Podversations, Online Readings, Seminars, and more. Red Bull Theater strives to be a home for all artists and theatergoers. We value and practice inclusiveness, equity and diversity in all of our activities, and are committed to antiracist action. All of us at Red Bull Theater are committed to actively working to help realize a more perfect union—a racially and socially just America. "The classics-shaking Red Bull Theater," as Time Out NY has called it, has presented 20 Off-Broadway productions and nearly 200 Revelation Readings of rarely seen classics, serving a community of more than 5,000 artists and providing quality artistic programming to an audience of over 65,000. The company's unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim, and has been recognized with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Callaway, Off Broadway Alliance, and OBIE nominations and Awards. For more information about The Alchemist, or any of Red Bull Theater's programs, visit www.redbulltheater.com. |
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