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Vintage Theatre presents Red

Vintage Theatre presents

Red

by John Logan

Directed by Craig A. Bond

November 24, 2017 – January 7, 2018

Vintage Theatre presents “Red” November 24 through January 7. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays and Monday, November 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. (no performance on Saturday, December 2) at the Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora 80010. No Performance on Sunday, April 16. Tickets are $25 - $30 and available online at www.vintagetheatre.org or by calling 303-856-7830.

What is art? And who gets to decide anyway?

Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art; a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery. But when Ken gains the confidence to challenge him, Rothko faces the agonizing possibility that his crowning achievement could also become his undoing.  Set in the 1950s, and based on a series of real events, “Red” takes a compelling look at the ever-changing relationship between an artist and his creations.  

Director Craig A. Bond has cast Phil Luna as Mark Rothko and Jason Spina as Ken.

“Red” won the 2010 Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play and was nominated for a total of seven Tony Awards, winning six  including Best Play.  All in all, it received the most wins out of any other production that season. The play also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.

John Logan is well known for films like Gladiator, The Aviator, Star Trek: Nemesis, Tim Burton-directed musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Rango, Skyfall and Alien: Covenant and as the creator of  the television series Penny Dreadful, but Logan was a successful playwright in Chicago 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. He premiered two new plays in 2013; Peter and Alice and I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers.  In 2014 the musical The Last Ship, inspired by the childhood experiences of Sting, premiered and received two Tony nominations.   I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, staring Emma Messenger as Sue Mengers, can be seen at Vintage Theatre on December 30 and 31 at 7:30 p.m.

Vintage Theatre presents

“Red”

A gripping look at artist and art through the lens of a young assistant.

Nov.24 - Jan 7

Fri/Sat at 7:30 p.m.; Sun. at 2:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m; No performance on Saturday, December 2

Tickets are $25 - $30

Online at www.vintagetheatre.org or 303-856-7830.

Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora 80010.

90 minutes, no intermission.

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Photo courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

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All Main Trails Lead to JCRS Shopping Center

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Photo courtesy Jonny B.

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Lowry Air Force Base

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Colorado State Capitol

Postcard courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

All the trees are still babies! Our best guess on the year of this photo comes from Ward Love: "I'm going with 1963 - plus or minus a year. I can recall when the "old" trees were all dying and removed. Then for a few years, hardly any trees - before a "reforestation" project began. There have been several periods over the last century when the Capitol, Civic Center Park and City and County Building were bereft of trees, as I recall. (I'm 81YO)"

Aeroplane View of Colfax Avenue

Postcard courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

Aeroplane View of the Colorado State Capitol and Colfax Avenue.

Colfax Point on South Park

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The Radiant Motel

Photo by John Margolies

Radiant Motel, East Colfax, 1980 

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Photo by Jonny B.

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Jerry's Baack on the 'Fax, because Jerry Baack IS Colfax.

Sachs Furniture Sign

East Drive-In Theatre

Opened on July 4, 1947 as the Drive-In. The opening movies were Groucho Marx in “A Night in Casablanca” & Gale Storm in “Sunbonnet Sue”. In 1948 it was renamed East Drive-In.

West Colfax Sidewalks

Photo by Jonny B.

I'll tell you this, that new Colfax Avenue Streetscaping plan could not come any sooner...

Satire Lounge by Mario Acevedo

Painting by Mario Acevedo

No GMO

Top Star Motel

Postcard courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

Hilton Hotel

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Practice Kindness

Union Pacific Motel

Postcard courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

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Schuyler Colfax by Karl Christian Krumpholz

Red Apple Cottage Camp

Postcard courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

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B & B Cottages

Postcard courtesy The Colfax Museum Collection

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Colorado State Capitol, 1905

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