The first one we could find, anyway, from the OMH website, describes the play as “terrifically acted,” noting that “Rothenberg, an up-and-coming Hollywood actor, convinces as the pushy salesman with an agenda.” We will continue the hunt for more info.

Update:

We found snippets of a few more reviews at The Assembly Rooms 2006.

The actors put in a stunning performance with enthralls the audience. You continue to try and second-guess the writer all the way through this production, and find yourself getting into the characters’ shoes and feeling every up and every down they experience - you also keep wishing you could press fast forward to skip to the end just to satisfy your curiosity. So, couple inspired acting with a twist no one could guess, and you cannot fail to enjoy this clever and entertaining production.
**** Three Weeks, 17th August 2006

Three tightly disciplined performances as a would-be property developer, his siren-like banker (Mindy Crist, recognisable from top-end US television shows such as Six Feet Under and 24 and the mysterious third man who, in a top-class performance from Adam Rothenberg, is never quite what he seems… A terse and effective account of how their lives are emotionally hollowed out from the inside, unable to connect on any human level… Glengarry Glen Ross with added sex and violence - top-class.
*** The Times, 15th August 2006

This European premiere is played with flair and conviction - with a very powerful performance by Josh Stamberg as the menacing Ferguson. It’s a compelling piece, confidently directed… by Amy Glazer, and you can’t fault it’s seriousness of intent.
*** The Scotsman, 12th August 2006

Our Adam has surfaced again in Scotland, rather like the Loch Ness Monster he so dearly loved as a child.

He recently joined the cast of Finder’s Fee, opening in the 2006 EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE.

Here’s a clipping with the juicy details:

Finder’s Fee, the New York thriller set to open at Assembly at the beginning of the festival, has postponed its premiere by two days to accommodate a mid-rehearsals team change, it was announced 25 July.

The original director, Olivier-Award winner Wilson Milam, has stepped down from the production due to unforeseen commitments to his TONY award nominated production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which continues to run on Broadway. Milam, who has directed two workshop readings of Finder’s Fee already, has been replaced by Amy Glazer, the Associate Director at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre.

The play, making its European debut after productions in New York and Los Angeles, will now open on Monday 7th August. Ticket holders for the two cancelled preview performances will be able to transfer to any performance before 13th August at the same price and discount they booked initially. The Assembly Box Office can be contacted on 0121 226 2428.

Three rising American actors making their Edinburgh Festival debuts have also been announced in the cast: Adam Rothenberg - whose recent New York theatre credits include plays with MCC, Second Stage and New York Stage and Film - has just finished filming opposite Frasier’s Jane Leeves in the new WB sitcom Misconceptions; Josh Stamberg, whose feature films include soon-to-be-released Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Drifting Elegant (the latter also directed by Amy Glazer); and the television regular Mindy Crist, whose recent appearances include ER, NYPD Blue, House, Six Feet Under and 24.

Amy Glazer has directed world, American and west-coast US premieres at Magic Theatre including Rebecca Gilman’s The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Blue Surge and The American in Me, Steven Belber’s Drifting Elegant and Tape, and Barry Gifford’s Wyoming. She is the recipient of Dean Goodman, Drama-logue, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and is currently a theatre and film professor at San Jose State University.

Assembly producer Louise Chantal said: “We’re very sorry to lose Wilson, who has contributed hugely to the script’s development over the last two years. However, Amy Glazer is a superb director and has been able to step into the breach immediately. Rehearsals continue in San Francisco and Finder’s Fee will be adding a little Californian glamour to the Festival in August.”

Finders Fee is appearing in The Supper Room, The Assembly Rooms, George Street 7th-28th August at 2pm.

We here at the Apple congratulate Adam Rothenberg for his recent turn in the world premiere of Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain. Between July 11th and the 23rd, Adam and co-star Josh Stamberg graced the Mainstage of Vassar College’s New York Stage and Film Festival under the direction of Trip Cullman. Described as “an urban tale of love and rage,” the play was inspired by events surrounding the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and chronicles “two Chicago cops, friends since childhood, and their competing accounts of the few harrowing days that changed their lives forever.”

A 2005 Perform Ink review of the script stated that:

The latest work by Chicago playwright Keith Huff is gripping. Along the way, the play asks questions about love and loyalty, family and friendship, power and control, what it means to be a cop, what it means to be a father. The characters are riveting from the moment they step out on the bare stage until the inevitable, tragic end.

We’re kicking ourselves for missing it.