Red
Broadway Drama
Previews March 11 2010
Opens April 1 2010
Running Time 1 hr 30 mins | no intermission Tickets
$25 to $116.50
Prices do not include any taxes,
service charges or other charges
Order at
Telecharge 212-239-6200 | Outside NY Metro Area 800-432-7250
Advisory Might not be appropriate for
children under 13
Restrictions Children 4 years old
and younger not permitted
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No Performances
Added Performances
Actors
Fund Performance Jun 20th 7:00P
Curtain Changes
Producer
Arielle Tepper Madover
Creative
John Logan author
Michael Grandage director
Christopher Oram costume design
Neil Austin lighting design
Christopher Oram scenic design
Adam Cork sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Alfred Molina |
Mark Rothko |
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Eddie Redmayne |
Ken |
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Synopsis
In 1958 Mark Rothko received the
commission to produce a series of murals for the Four Seasons
Restaurant in New York City's Seagram Building. Though rising in
prominence in the United States, the artist had not yet met with
total acceptance and his work had entered somewhat of a "darker"
period. The play explores Rothko's attempt "to create a definitive
work for an extraordinary setting" as he feels best by the
"threatening presence of a new generation of artists." A Bit of
Background As the commission
subsequently played out, it's quite surprising that Rothko excepted
it in the first place. There is informed supposition from events and
comments of that period that Rothko either never planned to complete
the murals or, if he did, that they would be installed for they
would be "something that will ruin the appetite of every
son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would
refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment."
In the end, Rothko refused to have the murals installed and returned
the advance. The Road to
Broadway
The show was rumored to be coming to
Broadway in Spring 2010 before its two-month run at London's Donmar
Warehouse from December 2009 to February 2010 ended. It didn't take
long to make it happen |
