Kevin Spacey reprising Clarence Darrow role for New York stageshow

Kevin Spacey will reprise his role as U.S. attorney Clarence Darrow in a one-man play in New York in June (17).
The two-night show, which will take place at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, New York on 15 & 16 June (17), will centre on the famed civil rights attorney who represented a Tennessee substitute teacher, accused of violating state law when he taught his students the theory of evolution in 1925.
The stageshow will be directed Thea Sharrock.
The House of Cards star first played Darrow in 2014 at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
“Clarence Darrow was one of the most important attorneys in the United States and I just love the idea of Darrow and (tennis player) Arthur Ashe coming together: both masters of two very different courts,” tennis fan Spacey says. “Of course, drama happens all the time on Ashe, but never quite like this.
“I love a new challenge and this is an exciting opportunity to share Darrow’s remarkable story with a broader and more diverse audience.”
The ‘Monkey Trial’ case was also the focus of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1955 play and 1960 movie Inherit The Wind, which starred Spencer Tracy.