La pièce è ispirata alla biografia del pittore americano Mark Rothko, maestro dell’espressionismo astratto, che alla fine degli anni Cinquanta ottenne la più ricca commissione della storia dell’arte moderna, una serie di murali per il ristorante Four Season di New York. Puntando i riflettori proprio su quel periodo, Rosso mette in scena lo scontro tra generazioni di artisti: tra Rothko, un uomo maturo che fa i conti con se stesso, e Ken, giovane allievo alla ricerca di un ‘padre’. «Il figl...

John Logan’s The Great Conspiracy is a powerful and meticulously researched account of the political turmoil that led to the American Civil War. First published in 1886, this compelling work examines the growing tensions between North and South, exposing the calculated efforts to preserve and expand slavery at any cost. With the insight of a Union general and statesman, Logan unravels the web of political maneuvering, failed compromises, and radical actions that pushed the nation ...

The artist Mark Rothko has just hired Ken, an aspiring artist, to be his assistant – and errand boy. Ken discovers that Rothko’s temper can run hot; but as he gets to know his boss better, he finds that Rothko has opened him up to more than just painting.A 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Play.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Alfred Molina as Mark RothkoJonathan Groff as KenDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works...

John “Black Jack” Logan was a well known Civil War general who helped the Union win the war in the Western theater, and after the war he became a national politician. In the 1880s, he also wrote this book, in which he asserted that the secession crisis and Civil War were all part of a Southern conspiracy that had its roots long before Lincoln’s election. The book covers all the way into Reconstruction.

Showbiz is John Logan’s harrowing tale of life and death in the theatre. It tells the story of the brilliant young director Julian, whose single minded determination drives those around him to personal and artistic extremes.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Berczeller, Holly Cardone, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Molly Hagan, Todd Kimsey, Kenneth Northcott and Denis O'Hare.

Two boys commit a murder – not for gain, or out of passion – just to do it, just to experience the thrill. Based on the infamous 1924 trial of Leopold and Loeb, Never the Sinner is their story, and the story of one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians, Clarence Darrow. In the case of a lifetime, Darrow is called in to defend the monstrous and win freedom for the depraved.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Thomas Carroll, David Darlow, Willia...

The first collection of plays from the multi-award-winning legendary screenwriter and playwright. Contains the plays RED, PETER AND ALICE and I’LL EAT YOU LAST.Contents: Introduction by Michael GrandageREDUnder the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the great...

'There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... One day the black will swallow the red.'Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing....

Art and Eros are always superimposed, don't you find? You cannot separate the two: the model naked in supplication before the artist; the artist exposing himself in trust. The beast of creation is always erect.1964/1967. In a rented cottage in Suffolk, a brilliant young film director, deep in making his magnum opus, confronts the ageing star that the studio has imposed on him.Vincent Price is about to walk out on the film, and Michael Reeves' career hangs by a thre...

Five years ago Janine Tolley died of what the cops said was a drug overdose. Her daughter Madisyn doesn't believe it and wants to hire John Logan to find the truth.Maddie is 14, homeless, and Logan believes she simply doesn't want to face some hard facts about her mom's death—until men try to snatch Maddie from under his nose. Then witnesses lie to him. And more questions are raised. What Logan thought would be a quick case turns into a twisted tale of greed, love spurned, bad busi...

"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New YorkerUnder the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to a...

Französisch Indochina, 1936: Am Oberlauf des Stoeng Sen, einem Nebenfluss des Mekong, kommt es zu eigenartigen Himmelserscheinungen. Fachleute führen diese auf einen Asteroideneinschlag zurück. Ray Logan, ein an ungewöhnlichen Phänomenen interessierter Millionenerbe, und der Ex-Fremdenlegionär Pierre Marquanteur, machen sich in den Dschungel des alten Khmer-Reichs auf, um dem Geheimnis auf den Grund zu gehen. Sie treffen auf den deutschen Wissenschaftler Kurt von Breden und dessen Tochter ...