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Red

Fuse Theater Review: An Uneven “Red” from the Peterborough Players

There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko’s career.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: abstract expressionism, Gus Kaikkonen, John Logan, Mark Rothko, Peterborough Players, Red

Theater Review: A Visual Artist Looks at “Red”

Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews “Red,” a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn’t like what he sees.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”

“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Theater, Visual Arts Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Theater Review: A Rewarding “Red”

“Red” is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at its center, painter Mark Rothko confronts fame and the commoditization of creativity in the world of contemporary art.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2012

The year kicks off with few unusual productions — companies are depending on proven New York hits, such as the Yasmina Reza duo, the Tony award-approved “Red,” and “Green Eyes,” though the Tennessee Williams curio tantalizes.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Number, American Idiot, art, Attica and Man of Flesh and Cardboard, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Opera House, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Bread and Puppet Theater, Caryl Churchill, Company One, Conversations with My Molester, Fen, Festen, Gamm-Theatre, God of Carnage, Green Day, Green Eyes, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Man=Carrot Circus, Michael Mack, New Repertory Theatre, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, tennessee-Williams, Whister in the Dark Theatre, Yesmina Reza

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