NewsPHOTO CALL: Red Opens on BroadwayThe Donmar Warehouse production of John Logan's Red, featuring original London stars Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, officially opened on Broadway April 1.
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Krissie Fullerton
April 02, 2010
Red stars two-time Tony nominee Molina and Olivier Award winner Redmayne. Donmar artistic director Michael Grandage again stages the Olivier Award-nominated play for its U.S. debut.
In 1958, New York artist Mark Rothko received the art world's largest commission to create a series of murals for The Four Seasons restaurant in the new Seagram building on Park Avenue. According to production notes, "Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, Ken, and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Rothko faces his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. Red is a moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing."
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.