Theatrical Outfit Presents Tony Award-Winning RED, 2/1-3/11

Theatrical Outfit presents the 2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Play, John Logan's Red,  February 1 – March 11, 2012 at the Balzer Theater at Herren's (84 Luckie Street Atlanta, GA  30303). Starring Tom Key as Mark Rothko and Jimi Kocina as his young assistant and directed by David de Vries. 

Obsessive, vain, arrogant and brilliant, modernist painter Mark Rothko turned the art world on its head with his revolutionary studies in color, shape, and texture. In this raw and provocative portrait of the master abstract expressionist and his young assistant, ambition and vulnerability go hand in hand as Rothko tries to create his crowning achievement that could also become his undoing. Recommended for ages 14 and up.

 

Performances are Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2:30 pm; $15 Senior Matinees on Wed 2/15 at 2:30 and Sat 2/25 at 2:30. Group discounts are available by calling 678.528.1497.

 

Tickets are $15 - $40. The box Office is open Tuesday – Friday, noon to 6:00 pm and prior to performances. Call 678.528.1500 or visit www.theatricaloutfit.org to purchase tickets.

 

John Logan was a successful playwright in Chicago for many years before turning to screenwriting. His first play, Never the Sinner, tells the story of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Subsequent plays include Hauptmann, about the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, and Riverview, a musical melodrama set at Chicago's famed amusement park. His play Red about artist Mark Rothko received six Tony Awards in 2010, the most of any play, including best play, best direction of a play for Michael Grandage and best featured actor in a play for Eddie Redmayne. Logan wrote Any Given Sunday and the television movie RKO 281, before gaining an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the Best Picture-winner, Gladiator in 2000. He gained another nomination for writing 2004's The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Other notable films written by Logan include Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine, The Last Samurai, and the Tim Burton-directed musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he received a Golden Globe Award. Logan's most recent feature films include Rango, an animated feature starring Johnny Depp and directed by Gore Verbinski, the film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret directed by Martin Scorsese.

 

David DeVries began his career at the old Kress Building in shows like The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Moon for the Misbegotten, I'm Not Rappaport and most recently in Freud's Last Session.  He went on to appear as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and has toured the country in the National Tour of Wicked.  Recent credits: Carapace (Alliance), Circle Mirror Transformation (TITS), Necessary Roughness (USA Network) and Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime). David is an award-winning audio book narrator and is the proud father of Willem, who possesses a nasty slider.

Theatrical Outfit is an Atlanta-based professional theater company whose purpose is to provide its diverse audiences, actors and artists with a rich theater experience and to produce works that stimulate thoughtful discussion. It is intentional about using local talent to tell its "Stories that stir the soul" – which often come from classic and contemporary literature – featuring themes that are both relevant and revelatory. Theatrical Outfit is a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 organization supported by private and public funding, along with ticket sales revenue.  Major support is provided by the Fulton County Commission through the Fulton County Arts Council, the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, the Georgia General Assembly through the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.