Lydia has something much more dramatic in mind: to paint the town red (or “cardinal,” to give reason to the play’s title), so it becomes an urban curio to visit. ADVERTISEMENT If Jeff seems ...

Her plan, which she must first sell to the mayor, Jeff Torm, is to paint six blocks of Main Street, from Plum to Swan, cardinal red. What a great tourist attraction it will be, she explains at a ...

In part two, Wilson puts the finishing touches on the red cardinal and its pine tree branch perch to create an easy to do painting.

Perhaps playwright Greg Pierce would not call “Cardinal,” which opened ... her dying upstate New York hometown by painting the main street red. She points to the yellow city of Izamal, Mexico ...

Her plan, which she must first sell to the mayor, Jeff Torm, is to paint six blocks of Main Street, from Plum to Swan, cardinal red. What a great tourist attraction it will be, she explains at a ...

A beautiful red cardinal perches on a pine tree branch. In part one, Wilson demonstrates the techniques involved in painting the background, branch, and bird.