Red

This gripping play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko was originally produced in London in December 2009 and transferred to Broadway in 2010. Set in a New York studio in the Bowery as the artist Rothko sets out to paint a series of murals for a lucrative commission at the Four Seasons in New York City, his assistant, Ken, questions Rothko’s theories of art and decision to accept such a commercial project and plants doubts about the appropriateness of hanging his paintings in such a “temple of consumption.” Artistic Director Bob Angelini said, “John Logan wrote a masterpiece in Red. His ability to deliver us into the mind of Mark Rothko is uncanny. Red allows us to see what the artist sees and feel what he feels. Logan exposes Rothko’s innermost thoughts about art and life and invites us to gaze within our own soul. If a picture paints a thousand words, then Red is the classic that has emerged from Rothko’s finest painting. Red will be hung in the finest literary galleries for generations.”