Robert Downey Jr. is widely known for his role in the Marvel franchise, but his long career includes much more than Iron Man alone. Downey Jr.
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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic At various points in “An Enemy of the People,” the Jeremy Strong-led production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic, the greatest entertainment comes from watching the faces opposite you. That’s not a critique of director Sam Gold’s work. It’s hard to think of a show that could put to better use the unique in-the-round structure of Circle in the Square Theatre than this one.
In the story, society closes in on and consumes an innocent man; in the staging, we the audience are society. Strong plays Dr. Thomas Stockmann, a widower who’s landed back home in what’s intended to be a cozy sinecure, acting as the chief physician for the town’s newly-opened spa.
(As adapted by playwright Amy Herzog, the script has been substantially altered; Ibsen’s original Thomas, for instance, is married.) Both man and town have seen better days, but both, too, are buoyed by optimism: the doctor, with his daughter Petra (a luminous Victoria Pedretti), opens his home to the town’s strata of young and open-minded folk to take his mind off of things. And everyone is hopeful that the spa will bring in tourists, and their money. These early moments of flickering possibility are conjured well, and a sharp contrast is established between Thomas’ heedless self-belief and the shrewd pragmatism of his brother, the town’s mayor.
As played by Michael Imperioli, Peter Stockmann has a set jaw and a majestically tufted head of hair; having come to prominence as a young man ultimately too naive and impulsive for the mob on “The Sopranos,” Imperioli has aged into the suavity, and the assured menace, of a don. The distinction between them is quickly heightened by the results of scientific tests that Thomas has commissioned. The water in
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The acclaimed revival of An Enemy of the People had a star-studded audience on opening night!
which last played Broadway 12 years ago, is the sort of not-quite-ripped-from-the-headlines play that could be about any fill-in-the-blank issue that’s on the viewer’s mind that day. It’s relevant by design.Exhibiting restraint — well, almost — director Sam Gold avoids making obvious modern parallels to needlessly buttress its potency.
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K.J. Yossman “Masters of the Air” soared to become Apple TV+’s highest-watched series launch ever when the first episodes dropped in January. While it might seem like a no-brainer that the team behind “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific” — including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and John Orloff — would hit it out of the park with a new World War II series, it wasn’t plain sailing, in large part thanks to COVID, which resulted in numerous delays.
“Cabaret” (starts April 1). I caught Redmayne when he played the role in London, and found his Evil Clown turn menacing.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Climate change protestors disrupted Thursday night’s performance of Broadway‘s “An Enemy of the People.” The disturbance briefly halted the play and resulted in several of the cast members, including star Michael Imperioli, helping to usher them out of the theater. The activists, who identified themselves as Extinction Rebellion, interrupted the performance three separate times, shouting phrases like “No theater on a dead planet” before Imperioli (without breaking character) began pushing one of the protestors toward the exit. “An Enemy of the People” stars Jeremy Strong as Dr.
A trio of climate protestors became the enemy of the audience on Broadway.At Thursday night’s performance of “An Enemy of the People,” starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, three environmental activists interrupted the start of the second act with shouts of “no theater on a dead planet!” The Post witnessed one person walk onto the stage of the Circle In The Square Theatre on W. 50th Street, where the “Succession” and “Sopranos” stars were in the middle of a tense scene.
UPDATE, with video: Climate activists disrupted tonight’s Broadway performance of An Enemy Of The People, bringing the production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli to a brief halt as protesters shouted “No theater on a dead planet” before being subdued by ushers.
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