A day after he was struck with a rock in a random assault on the Higher East Aspect, the actor Michael Stuhlbarg appeared Monday night within the first preview of the Broadway play “Patriots,” wherein he stars as a Russian oligarch who helped facilitate Vladimir V. Putin’s rise.
Stuhlbarg, finest recognized for his function 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 situation the place the person was arrested on East 91st Avenue is the deal with for the Russian consulate.
The police mentioned Stuhlbarg declined medical consideration.
Stuhlbarg — who the present mentioned in a information launch was feeling “high-quality” — appeared onstage Monday for his debut in “Patriots.” He performs 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, written by Peter Morgan, the creator of the British royalty drama “The Crown,” and directed by Rupert Goold, opens on April 22. It was first staged in 2022 in London, the place Tom Hollander performed Berezovsky.
Stuhlbarg, 55, had his breakthrough lead efficiency within the Coen brothers movie “A Severe 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.”
On the finish of the efficiency the viewers on the Ethel Barrymore gave Stuhlbarg a standing ovation when he got here out, smiling, for his bow.