Jonathan Groff headed to LA stage in “Red”

Jonathan Groff is such a talented guy as anyone who saw him on Glee knows.

While he has also guest starred on The Good Wife and other shows, the greatest successes for this openly gay star have been on the stage.

He was nominated for a Tony Award for best actor in a musical for Spring Awakening.

Last year, he starred in Deathtrap on the London stage.

Now he will be taking the LA theater world by storm.

He and Alfred Molina will star in the L.A. premiere of John Logan’s two-person play Red at the Mark Taper Forum beginning in August.

Groff will play the role of Ken, a young assistant to modernist painter Mark Rothko (Molina). The drama deals with the sometimes contentious relationship between the two men as they work on a commission for the Four Seasons.

Red will open Aug. 12 and be directed by Michael Grandage.