The Rep’s most recent production, Red, about mid-century abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, opens Friday and continues its run through Nov. 10. In conjunction with The Rep, the Arkansas Arts Center opens its exhibit Mark Rothko in the 1940s: The Decisive Decade this week as well.
You can read more about the play (and its partnership with the Arkansas Arts Center) in this week’s issue, but here are some outtakes from an interview with director Robert Hupp and actors Joe Graves (Mark Rothko) and Chris Wendelken (Rothko’s apprentice, Ken) about Mark Rothko as an artist, the storyline in Red and what it’s like on stage with a cast of only two.
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