Washington Post
By Kevin Nance

Mark Rothko’s studio, at 222 Bowery in New York, was a former gymnasium with a hardwood floor spattered with paint. Todd Rosenthal’s set design for “Red,” the Goodman Theatre/Arena Stage co-production of John Logan’s Tony Award-winning play about the vaguely Oedipal clash of the great American painter and his young assistant, is painstakingly realistic. …Read more

American Theatre
By Nelson Pressley

Edward Gero, stance wide and eyes ablaze, holds center stage for the majority of the 100 minutes of Red. … Gero is one of the first U.S. actors (among many this season, as the Tony-winning drama rolls out in theatres coast to coast) to play Mark Rothko in John Logan’s account of the brilliant, anguished artist wrestling with his lucrative 1958 commission for the Seagram Building’s Four Seasons restaurant. …Read more

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