Along with its annual full production, Red Bull Theater also offers a series called “Revelation Readings,” featuring readings of both new and old plays that reflect the theatre’s mission of “specializing in plays of heightened language,” primarily but not exclusively in those of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The 2010–2011 season of readings has just been announced, and it’s rich with unmissable events: René Auberjonois and Michael Urie in W. Somerset Maugham’s Our Betters, Friedrich Schiller’s Don Carlos, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom, and a new version of Strindberg’s Creditors, adapted and directed by Doug Wright and featuring Bill Camp.

And, on Monday 29 November, in collaboration with The Barker Project, Wrestling School associate and Howard Barker specialist Richard Romagnoli will direct a reading of Barker’s Gertrude — The Cry, featuring the brilliant performers Jan Maxwell and F. Murray Abraham. Those who dropped by theatre minima’s Howard Barker at the Segal Center event this past May got a small preview when Maxwell read a brief scene from the play under the direction of Red Bull’s artistic director Jesse Berger (and now I know that it was F. Murray Abraham lurking around in the Segal Center shadows that evening). Expect fireworks.

The full schedule of “Revelation Readings” events can be found here.