
"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker

Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in...

WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko, whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.
