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GREAT PERFORMANCES: Red

Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch in "Red."
Courtesy of Johan Persson
Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch in "Red."

Airs Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Sunday, Nov. 17 at Noon and 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

GREAT PERFORMANCES Presents Third Annual “Broadway’s Best” Lineup Featuring Tony Award-winning Productions Fridays, November 1-29 on KPBS

Members can stream all 5 plays beginning November 1, before the broadcast premiere, with KPBS Passsport.

Award-winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina reprises his critically acclaimed performance as the American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko in playwright John Logan’s Tony Award-winning 2010 play "Red."

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Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant — and the growing competitive presence of a new generation of artists — Rothko takes on his greatest career challenge yet: to create a definitive series of paintings for the Philip Johnson-designed Four Seasons restaurant in architect Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram Building.

Molina is joined by rising star Alfred Enoch (HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER) as Rothko’s assistant Ken. 

Original Broadway director Michael Grandage returns to direct this 2018 West End revival, the first U.K. production since the play’s 2009 world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse.

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Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch in "Red."
Courtesy of Johan Persson
Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch in "Red."

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Members can stream all 5 plays beginning November 1, before the broadcast premiere, with KPBS Passsport.

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Credits:

GREAT PERFORMANCES is produced by THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET For GREAT PERFORMANCES: Bill O’Donnell is series producer and David Horn is executive producer. For "Red": Written by John Logan and directed for the stage by Michael Grandage. A Michael Grandage Company Production in association with THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET, directed for the screen by Nick Morris and produced by Austin Shaw.