NEW YORK -- Jeremy Strong is going from a corporate boardroom on TV to a whistleblower on Broadway.
The actor who plays Kendall Roy in the HBO television series 鈥淪uccession鈥� has signed on to play a man who tries to expose water contamination in a Norwegian spa town in Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play 鈥淎n Enemy of the People.鈥�
The play 鈥� with a rewrite from Amy Herzog, whose adaptation of Ibsen鈥檚 鈥淎 Doll鈥檚 House鈥� just won a Tony nomination 鈥� will premiere on Broadway in early 2024 at a theatre to be revealed later, producers said. The rest of the cast will be announced later. Sam Gold, who won a Tony directing 鈥淔un Home,鈥� will helm the revival.
It will be Strong's second time on Broadway. He was in 鈥淎 Man for All Seasons鈥� in 2008 with Frank Langella and Patrick Page. Since then, his work on 鈥淪uccession鈥� has earned him an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Strong will play a public-minded doctor in a small town who discovers the water supply for the public spa is contaminated and may have made tourists 鈥� the community鈥檚 economic lifeblood 鈥� ill. But his efforts to clean up the mess pit his ethics against political cowards and the media, leaving his family suffering.
