Rothenberg Replaces Acevedo in Danny
by Broadway Staff • Oct 5, 2004
Adam Rothenberg has replaced Kirk Acevedo who was previously announced in the upcoming Second Stage production of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, which also stars Rosemarie DeWitt. Acevedo had to leave the stage production because he landed a conflicting gig on TV's Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
Rothenberg played Stanley Kowalski in the recent Kennedy Center production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He appeared on the New York stage last year in The Women's Project production of Birdy. His other theatrical credits include Antigone, Dracula, The Sure Thing, The Lobster Boy, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, Specter, Center of Gravity, The Beautiful One, Close Encounters and Mother of Invention.
Rothenberg played Stanley Kowalski in the recent Kennedy Center production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He appeared on the New York stage last year in The Women's Project production of Birdy. His other theatrical credits include Antigone, Dracula, The Sure Thing, The Lobster Boy, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, Specter, Center of Gravity, The Beautiful One, Close Encounters and Mother of Invention.
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is set in a rundown bar where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, are drinking beer when they strike up a conversation. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman. Danny, who fellow truck drivers call "the beast," seems incapable of tender emotion, while Roberta, still haunted by an earlier ugly sexual incident, is distrustful of men in general. And yet, as their initial reserve begins to melt, the possibility of a genuine and meaningful relationship begins to emerge.
The play, directed by Leigh Silverman, is scheduled to run off-Broadway from October 21 through December 5.