'Red' directors re-create Rothko's studio at Arena Stage
Mark Rothko's studio, at 222 Bowery in New York, was a former gymnasium with a hardwood floor spattered with paint. Todd Rosenthal's set design for "Red," the Goodman Theatre/Arena Stage co-production of John Logan's Tony Award-winning play about the vaguely Oedipal clash of the great American painter and his young assistant, is painstakingly realistic: a controlled chaos of buckets of paint, containers of powdered p…