Tonight in New York City: Going to see Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow
‘Clarence Darrow’ Theater Review: Kevin Spacey Serves Up History on Center Court
Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York, has long been the home of historic tennis matches, the back and forth of fierce competitors.
But audiences had a different courtside experience Thursday when Kevin Spacey brought his one-man show “Clarence Darrow” to Center Court — the first play ever performed in the U.S. Open’s biggest venue, for a limited two-night run.
Darrow, the pioneering American lawyer who argued key cases in the early 20th-century progressive era, was a master of the service game — service to the working man, to the oppressed and to reason itself despite the assault of well-heeled bullies and the prevailing prejudices of his time.
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...Spacey has a worldly edge that’s far from Fonda’s folksier persona. And he gamely ventures into the audience to maintain their attention through Rintels’ somewhat dated greatest hits collection of Darrow’s legal exploits
http://www.thewrap.com/clarence-darrow-theater-review-kevin-spacey-serves-up-history-at-center-court/
