A painter's pas de deux




KCRW's Opening the Curtain show

Summary: At the heart of the play ?Red?, two men stand before a massive canvas. It?s center stage in Mark Rothko?s cavernous studio. The blank expanse towers before the artist and his young assistant. As the young man pours thick red paint into two galvanized buckets, Rothko, played by Alfred Molina, drops the needle on TLU.