Someday after he was struck with a rock in a random assault on the Higher East Facet, the actor Michael Stuhlbarg will seem in Monday’s first preview of the Broadway play “Patriots,” by which he stars as a Russian oligarch who helped facilitate Vladimir V. Putin’s rise.
Stuhlbarg, finest recognized for his position as a gangster within the collection “Boardwalk Empire,” was strolling in Central Park on Sunday night when a person threw a rock, hitting him at the back of the neck, the police mentioned.
Stuhlbarg chased the person, Xavier Israel, 27, out of the park, the place he was taken into custody and charged with assault. The placement the place the person was arrested on East 91st Avenue is the handle for the Russian consulate.
The police mentioned Stuhlbarg declined medical consideration.
A spokeswoman for “Patriots,” Louisa Pancoast, mentioned that Stuhlbarg, 55, would seem onstage on Monday for his debut within the play, which was written by Peter Morgan, the creator of the British royalty drama “The Crown.” He’s taking part in Boris A. Berezovsky, a Russian enterprise tycoon who reigned in post-Soviet Russia and helped set up Putin as president, however then had a bitter falling out with the Kremlin and died in exile.
The play, directed by Rupert Goold, opens on April 22. It was first staged in 2022 in London, the place Tom Hollander performed Berezovsky.
Stuhlbarg had his breakthrough lead efficiency within the Coen brothers movie “A Critical Man,” happening to quite a few onscreen roles, together with as Dr. Richard Sackler, the prescription opioid magnate, within the restricted collection “Dopesick,” for which he was nominated for an Emmy.
A fixture of New York’s theater scene within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, Stuhlbarg final appeared on Broadway in 2005, when he acquired a Tony nomination for starring in Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman.”
