MICHAEL BURTCH: ARTIST

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Red is a play by American writer John Logan about artist Mark Rothko. It was the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Play. Mark Rothko is in his New York studio in 1958-9, painting a group of murals for the expensive and exclusive Four Seasons restaurant. He gives orders to his assistant, Ken, as Mark mixes the paints, makes the frames, and paints the canvases. Ken, however, brashly questions Rothko's theories of art and his acceding to work on such a commercial project.