Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!

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Red Bull Theater presents a rare revival of Ben Jonson's Volpone, or The Fox, for a strictly limited engagement beginning tomorrow, November 27th at the Lucille Lortel Theater (121 Christopher Street, between Bleecker and Hudson Streets). Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Mr. Berger directs a company that features Jen Eden (Galileo the Musical), Alvin Epstein ("one of our culture's hidden treasures" -Village Voice; "one of the great classical actors of his generation" - New York Magazine), Tovah Feldshuh (4 Tony Award nominations - Best Actress, 4 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Obie, Theatre World and Lucille Lortel Awards), Cameron Folmar (The 39 Steps -Broadway), Michael Mastro (Broadway: Love! Valour! Compassion!, Barrymore, Side Man, Judgement At Nuremberg, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Twelve Angry Men, Mamma Mia!), Sean Patrick Doyle (La Cage Aux Folles, Mary Poppins), Christina Pumariega (Seminar - Broadway; Witch of Edmonton – Red Bull Theater; Uncle Vanya – Soho Rep), Pearl Rhein (The Red Letterbox – CSC), Rocco Sisto (Quills – Drama Desk Award), Alexander Sovronsky (Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac; NYSF: Romeo & Juliet; TFANA – Othello), Teale Sperling (Christmas Spectacular 2010, '11 – RCMH), Stephen Spinella (Tony Award winner: Best Featured Actor and Best Actor for his performance as Prior Walter in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika respectively; Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor - James Joyce's The Dead), Raphael Nash Thompson and Gregory Wooddell (Broadway: The Lyons).

Meet Volpone, the rich old Magnifico, whose ingenious schemes and farcical scams dupe his wealthy friends into showering him with gold. This Jacobean juggler robs the rich to feed the richer. Considered one of the greatest comedies ever written for the stage, Jonson's merciless satire of greed and lust delightfully skewers the vanities and hypocrisies of humanity with irreverent comic relish. A feast of extraordinary language and outrageous characters await you in this timeless and timely classic from the pen of Shakespeare's greatest peer.

Volpone will have set design by John Arnone, costume design by Clint Ramos, lighting design by Peter West, choreography by Tracy Bersley, and original music by Scott Killian.

Red Bull Theater is the not-profit Off-Broadway theater company specializing in plays of heightened language, with a unique focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. In the 2012 season, building on its history of Revelation Readings and In The Raw Workshops, the company expanded its production repertoire to include world classics from all eras, starting with Jean Genet's The Maids. Red Bull Theater continues to produce large-scale works from Shakespeare's era and rarely produced classics from across the spectrum as it expands the number of full productions on offer per season, this year featuring Ben Jonson's Volponeand a spring revival of August Strindberg's modern classic, The Dance of Death. Red Bull Theater embraces the imagination of theatergoers through intimate, imaginative productions of great classic stories. Now heading towards its 10th Anniversary in 2013, Red Bull Theater's work has been recognized with multiple Callaway, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and OBIE Award nominations and Awards.

Benefit Gala Night for Volpone will be Sunday, December 2nd at 7pm with special guests to be announced. Performances of Volpone will be Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evenings at 7:30pm, Friday evenings at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm, and Sunday matinees at 3pm. Visit www.redbulltheater.com for complete calendar. Tickets from $20 may be purchased online at www.redbulltheater.com or by phone at 212/352-3101.

Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella in the title role

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Christina Pumariega and Stephen Spinella

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella and Cameron Folmar

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella, Rocco Sisto, and Cameron Folmar

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella surrounded by the cast

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella, Alvin Epstein, and Cameron Folmar

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella, Cameron Folmar and Michael Masto

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!
Stephen Spinella and Tovah Feldshuh

Photo Flash: First Look at Stephen Spinella and More in Red Bull Theater's VOLPONE Off-Broadway!



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