Serving up Titus Andronicus with Jesse Berger and Red Bull Theater

A conversation with Jesse Berger, Founding Artistic Director of Red Bull Theater

If you know the name of any theatre from Shakespeare’s time, it’s probably the Globe. But it’s another theatre from that era — the Red Bull — that’s the namesake for one of today’s preeminent producers of early modern English drama in the United States.

Now Red Bull Theater is preparing for the opening of one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known — and extremely gruesome — dramas, Titus Andronicus. Jesse Berger, who founded Red Bull Theater in 2003 and continues to serve as its Producing Artistic Director, joins us to talk about the theatre, its history, and this production, which he directed.