Broadway box office soared last week, as five productions joined the roster, one returned and no fewer than 30 of the 32 shows saw attendance at 90% of capacity or more. Twenty productions were sell-outs.
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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.
Thomas Stockmann, a medial professional who discovers harmful bacteria in the town spas. But those in power, including the mayor (Imperioli), who also happens to be Dr. Stockmann’s brother, try to silence him and turn him into an enemy of the people.
During the interrupted scene, select audience members happened to be seated on stage for a town hall, causing some in the crowd to think the protesters were part of the show. Climate activists interrupt tonight’s An Enemy of the People performance. Jeremy Strong stayed in character and for a second I think a lot of us thought it was part of the show.
It was not. pic.twitter.com/dV2GpKKsg2 In a statement, Extinction Rebellion called theater a “powerful medium for provoking social change.” “[Thursday’s] action highlights the failure of governments and corporations to treat climate and ecological breakdown as the crisis it is,” the group wrote. “The group emphasizes that the present socio-economic system can’t protect people from the environmental crises to come, because its very structure creates these crises and then ignores them.” Imperioli acknowledged the
.Broadway box office soared last week, as five productions joined the roster, one returned and no fewer than 30 of the 32 shows saw attendance at 90% of capacity or more. Twenty productions were sell-outs.
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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.
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.
Whether or not the climate activists who interrupted a critics preview of Broadway’s An Enemy of the People last week persuasively made their “water’s coming for us all” message isn’t for me to say, but I will note that the disruption spoke very well for this production.
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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