Washington Post
By Peter Marks

For all its highfalutin discourse — on abstract expressionism, Dionysus vs. Apollo, the pernicious advance of pop art — the most engrossing moment of Arena Stage’s immensely enjoyable “Red” comes when the two actors dip their brushes into buckets and paint. The activity in which the superbly matched Edward Gero and Patrick Andrews engage, in point of fact, is priming a canvas half again as tall as the two of them. Read more

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

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