Actor Michael Stuhlbarg kicked off his most recent Broadway show on Monday, a working day after a gentleman allegedly threw a rock at the actor’s head on Sunday evening.
The 55-12 months-previous actor, recognized for “Dopesick” and “Connect with Me by Your Identify,” previewed his newest perform, “Patriots,” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York Metropolis. Shots printed by Getty Illustrations or photos on Tuesday show the star in costume and surrounded by fellow stars, like Will Eager and Luke Thallon, as they feel to applaud through a curtain connect with.
Stuhlbarg was “randomly attacked around Central Park” on Sunday, a consultant for “Patriots” confirmed in a statement shared with Deadline. The Monday statement additional that Stuhlbarg is on the mend and would proceed with the enjoy as scheduled.
A representative for Stuhlbarg did not right away react to The Times’ request for confirmation and further comment on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the New York Police verified to The Periods that officers responded to a 911 call “of an assault in progress” in close proximity to 90th Road and East Drive in the Central Park precinct of Manhattan at about 7:45 p.m. EDT on Sunday. Law enforcement claimed that a 55-year-previous person was going for walks in the area “when he was struck in the head by an mysterious object,” which was decided to be a rock just after a preliminary investigation. Law enforcement and prosecutors allege that 27-yr-old Xavier Israel, whom the report describes as unhoused, hurled the rock at the back of his victim’s head, “causing an abrasion.”
Law enforcement say Stuhlbarg chased Israel to the front of the Russian Consulate business on East 91st Road, where officers took Israel into custody. He was arrested and charged soon soon after.
The “Boardwalk Empire” actor refused healthcare attention at the scene.
A spokesperson for the Manhattan district lawyer confirmed to The Times that Israel was arraigned in criminal court docket and granted bail. Israel faces felony fees of assault in the next degree and harassment in the next degree.
In lawful documents shared with The Situations, an unnamed lady said that the assault on Stuhlbarg brought on “redness and inflammation to the back again of his head and considerable agony.”
The Situations did not quickly listen to back again from a lawful representative for Israel.
A hearing on the alleged assault is set for Friday.
In “Patriots,” Stuhlbarg stars as late tycoon Boris Berezovsky, the guy “behind Vladimir Putin‘s chilling rise to electric power,” a launch for the manufacturing suggests. The engage in is is set in in the early ‘90s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Keen stars as Putin and Thallon as Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
“Patriots,” directed by Rupert Goold, will officially debut on April 22 and will operate for 12 weeks at the Barrymore Theatre.
