The jewel in the crown of the series will be Amy Irving and Ruth Maleczcech headlining a reading of Phaedra by Elizabeth Egloff. The Nov. 16 Irving-Maleczech reading is a benefit for the company.

The series plays 7 PM and runs to Nov. 18 at The Culture Project at 45 Bleecker. Admission is free. For reservations, call (212) 414-5168. For more information, go to redbulltheater.com.

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The "Revelation Readings" began Nov. 3 with Don Jonny by Anton Dudley (Slag Heap) and Jonathan Spottiswoode (Spottiswoode & His Enemies). Inspired by the Don Juan of Moliére and Mozart, the "wild rock musical" was directed by Jesse Berger.

The schedule included A Mad World My Masters by Thomas Middleton, The Witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley, Danton's Death by Georg Büchner, the Nov. 16 Phaedra and Nov. 18's Kean by Jean Paul Sartre. A special wine reception with members of the RBT Company follows the reading of Phaedra. Admission is $20. Reservations are required. Call (212) 352-3101.

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In early 2004, Red Bull will produce a workshop staging of a new play by David Grimm (author of Kit Marlowe), Savages of Hartford. In the spring 2004, the company will open its second full production. Titles under consideration are The Revengers Tragedy, The Changeling, The Tempest and The Jew of Malta.

"Red Bull Theater is dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein," according to production notes. "With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and engage the imagination of today's theatergoers through language-based, company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great classic stories."

The troupe's inaugural production, Shakespeare's Pericles, was a critical and audience success. The Off-Broadway run was extended twice, playing seven weeks in 2003.