Red October 21, 2011

Full-blooded and visceral, John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama 'Red' takes you into the mind of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, for whom paintings are "pulsating" life forces and art is intended to stop the heart. 'Red' chronicles the tormented painter's two-year struggle to complete a lucrative set of murals for Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant, and his fraught relationship with a seemingly naive young assistant, who must choose between appeasing his mentor--and changing the course of art history. Set amid the swiftly changing cultural tide of the early 1960s, 'Red' is a startling snapshot of a brilliant artist at the height of his fame, a play hailed as "intense and exciting" by the The New York Times.