Are you a performer who delights in bringing new work to life? If so, UMass Theater wants you to audition for three very different new plays going up this spring! Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido is a play with music that examines a shameful moment in American history and how it…
by Gail M. Burns “What do you see?” is both the opening line and the penultimate one in John Logan’s play, Red, now on the boards at Oldcastle Theatre. The difference between the fine arts – painting and sculpture – and the performing arts – theatre and dance – is…
   Playwright John Logan’s Tony Award winning Best Play, “Red“, opens the season with master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko having just launched the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant,…
Does a play about abstract expressionism make for good theatre? “Red” is able to answer that question, not once, but again and again.
