84 Luckie Street | Atlanta, GA 30303 | 678.528.1504

 

October 17, 2011

  For Immediate Release

Contact: Jennifer Dwyer, Communications Director

678.528.1504; jenn.dwyer@theatricaloutfit.org

 

Theatrical Outfit Announces the 2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Play, Red

 

October 17, 2011 (Atlanta, GA) Theatrical Outfit is proud to announce the 2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Play, Red.  February 1 – March 11, 2012 at the Balzer Theater at Herren’s. 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.

“An intense and exciting bio-drama." – New York Times

WHAT:         Red  by John Logan.  Recommended for 14 and up.

 

WHERE:         Theatrical Outfit

The Balzer Theater at Herren’s

                        84 Luckie Street

                   Atlanta, GA  30303

 

WHEN:           February 1 – March 11, 2011.  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 available; call 678.528.1496.

 

TICKETS:       $15 - $40.  Box Office is open Mon – Friday, 10am to 6pm and prior to performances.  678.528.1500; www.theatricaloutfit.org.

 

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

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.

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

David DeVries is pleased to be with the Outfit again after beginning 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.

 

ABOUT THE CAST:

Tom Key (Mark Rothko) has served as Executive Artistic Director of Theatrical Outfit since 1995. Tom Key has performed at the Lambs Theater off-Broadway, the John F. Kennedy Center of Washington D.C., the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Theater Center
and the Alliance. With the late singer-songwriter, Harry Chapin, he conceived and co-authored the off-Broadway musical hit, Cotton Patch Gospel. Most recently he has adapted John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces at T.O. and starred in
T.O.’s The Young Man From Atlanta. Tom Key is dedicated to the Theatrical Art Form as a catalyst to creating community.

 

Jimi Kocina (Ken)

 

MEDIA

Interviews with the cast and design team can be arranged through Jennifer Dwyer: jenn.dwyer@theatricaloutfit.org or 678.528.1504. Photos are available upon request.

 

To attend Media Night, Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM please email your request to jenn.dwyer@theatricaloutfit.org.

 

About Theatrical Outfit

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.

 

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