All in all, it received the most wins out of any other production that season. In addition, Alfred Molina was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Mark Rothko. The play was nominated for a total of seven Tony Awards, winning six, including: Best Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Eddie Redmayne, Best Direction of a Play for Michael Grandage, Best Scenic Design of a Play for Christopher Oram, Best Lighting Design of a Play for Neil Austin, and Best Sound Design of a Play for Adam Cork. The play won the 2010 Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play and Molina won the Distinguished Performance Award. In reviewing the Broadway production, Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press wrote: "They are the tantalizing first words of Red, John Logan's engrossing, often enthralling new play about art, an artist and the act of creation." Those first words were "What do you see?" Variety wrote that "Alfred Molina is majestic". Michael Billington in The Guardian wrote: "Alfred Molina, with his large frame and beetling eyebrows, has exactly the fierce intensity of an artist whose paintings were a dynamic battle between Apollo and Dionysus". Reviews for the London production were mixed for the play but positive for Molina's performance. He explains to Ken that the Four Seasons is an inappropriate place for his murals to be seen. Ultimately, Rothko stops working on the project and decides to return the money. For his part, Rothko dislikes the rise of pop art. Ken, however, eventually brashly questions Rothko's theories of art and his acceding to work on such a commercial project. He gives orders to his assistant, Ken, as Ken mixes the paints, makes the frames, and primes the canvases. Mark Rothko is in his New York studio in 1958/59, having been commissioned to paint a group of murals for the expensive and exclusive Four Seasons restaurant.
One day the black will swallow the red." "There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend.
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