“The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully, and a liar,” Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy said in the Succession season-two finale, getting into his whistleblowing bag. “And he was fully personally aware of these events for many years and made efforts to hide and cover up.” Now, Strong is back at it, this time onstage, starring as Dr. Thomas Stockmann in a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People on Broadway, alongside Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, White Lotus) as Peter Stockman — the kind of team up that the real HBO-heads can only dream of. And for the Netflix-focused folks, Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House, You) will be playing Petra Stockmann. The production will be directed by Fun Home’s Sam Gold and with a revised script by Amy Herzog (4000 Miles). Herzog also just adapted Ibsen’s A Doll’s House for Broadway, in a production starring Strong’s friend and defender Jessica Chastain. The production will have a 16-week limited engagement, with previews beginning February 27 and opening night scheduled for March 18. Strong plays a scientist who discovers that a small Norwegian spa town’s water supply is tainted and causing illness among spa practitioners, and runs up against a local government that doesn’t care. From there? He blows that whistle, baby.
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