March 2012

Behind the scenes of America’s favorite pastime.

Take A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” cross it with Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias,” and you will find yourself at the crossroads

Merrily “on the cusp” with Aphra Behn.

“Not a musical like you’ve learned musicals to be.”

“Things are simple only when you choose not to examine them.”

“What would you do if you never got up?”

“Microstructures” in action.

Abstract painter Mark Rothko’s clinical depression disguised as artistic integrity.
“Red” by John Logan, directed by Richard E.T. White opened at the Seattle Rep on Wed, February 29th starring Denis Arndt as 20th Century abstract painter Mark Rothko and Connor Toms as Ken, his assistant. Originally the play opened in 2009 at the Donmar Warehouse inLondon, and on Broadway it won a Tony award in 2010 and the Drama Desk Award. Through a long conversation, Ken and Rothko discuss life and art.