More shots of Adam in action with Rosemarie DeWitt from Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.

From Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Photos: Joan Marcus).

The Drama League has nominated Adam for a Distinguished Performance Award for his work in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. We here at the Apple are brimming with pride.

With Rosemarie DeWitt in the 2econd Stage Theatre production (Photo: Joan Marcus).

A KICKBOX PAS DE DEUX!
It may well turn Adam Rothenberg into a matinee idol for women with blue-collar fantasies! Very touching and warmly acted.
BEN BRANTLEY / THE NEW YORK TIMES

In a role originated by John Turturro 20 years ago, Rothenberg is equally persuasive in Danny’s gradual lowering of his guard and in the brooding character’s tough posturing, his edgy physicality and moments of pierced exposure. After playing Stanley earlier this year opposite Patricia Clarkson in the Kennedy Center’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” this accomplished actor seems ripe for wider discovery.
DAVID ROONEY / VARIETY

RIVETING! Few of Shanley’s plays hold the passion of this poignant romance. Adam Rothenberg and Rosemarie DeWitt inhabit their roles with in-your-face intensity!

Shanley’s breakthrough play is precisely choreographed by director Leigh Silverman in this touching revival. Rosemarie DeWitt and Adam Rothenberg expose the hearts of their characters with bristling vitality!!
MICHAEL SOMMERS / THE STAR-LEDGER

With Patricia Clarkson in A Streetcar Named Desire (Photo: Joan Marcus).

Charles Isherwood penned a glowing review of Adam’s work in the Kennedy Center production of A Streetcar Named Desire that we had to share with Apple readers:

There are, however, moments of real poignance to be found in unexpected places here. Rothenberg‘s Stanley, while lacking the smoldering sexuality that famously marked Marlon Brando’s perf, never comes across as a mere brute, but as a canny, cagy fellow defending his turf — and a love that, for all the crudeness with which it is expressed, registers as a forceful rebuke to Blanche’s insistence on the supremacy of genteel modes of conduct. That maddening hurdle for any actor undertaking this role — Stanley’s anguished cries of “Stella!” — is cleared with ease here: It’s one of the production’s most touching moments, as Stanley prowls the apartment like a mad animal.

It’s exciting to see a relative unknown step up so confidently and capably to a role that has tripped up any number of more established performers. (London’s last two Stanleys — Iain Glen and Toby Stephens — come to mind.)

Noah Emmerich, Adam Rothenberg, Patricia Clarkson and Amy Ryan at the rehearsal studio for A Streetcar Named Desire in New York City, April 6, 2004. (Photo: Richard Drew)

From the Kennedy Center production of A Streetcar Named Desire (Photo: dogra).