Broadway's Hits and Misses of the Spring

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John Logan's play about the painter Mark Rothko got rave reviews in both London and New York City, and it boasts a powerful performance by Alfred Molina as the irascible, fiercely iconoclastic artist, around the time he was painting murals for the ritzy Four Seasons restaurant in New York City. On its own terms, the play works, but it struck me as safe, paint-by-numbers drama, another iteration of a familiar formula: crusty old artist meets idealistic young acolyte, and both wind up learning something. (See also: David Margulies' Collected Stories, also on Broadway this spring.) But it's a tony play that could well win the Best Play Tony.

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