Edward Gero (Red)

Goodman Theatre begins its 2011/2012 season with the extraordinarily passionate and moving play, RED. Following Red's Tony Award-winning run on Broadway, John Logan (Red's playwright) called Robert Falls, Goodman's Artistic Director, as he wanted the play's first post-New York production to be in Chicago, at Goodman, and under the direction of Robert Falls. Red is a snapshot of the enigmatic painter Mark Rothko (portrayed by Edward Gero) and his personal and generational struggles at a seminal moment in his career: his 1958 commission to create a series of murals for New York's upscale Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building. We spoke about the relationship between Rothko and his assistant Ken, and how the power of this relationship shifts gradually over 2 years as Ken eventually challenges Rothko and changes the course of art history.