Forward Theater Company's "Red" is a tightly focused production about art, age and self-absorption

Jennifer A. Smith
Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:26:17 -0000

While artists can be notoriously temperamental -- at least in the popular imagination -- the Mark Rothko in John Logan's 2010 Tony winner, "Red", could win a prize for it. Self-righteous, rabidly opinionated and obsessed with what place he will occupy in art history, Rothko paces around his New York studio like a tiger in a too-small pen at the zoo.