It was announced today that Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award winner Jeremy Strong, most recently known for playing Kendall Roy on Succession, will return to Broadway early next year in An Enemy of the People.
This new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play will feature a new adaptation by Amy Herzog and be directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold. Premiering on Broadway in early 2024, a theatre along with a complete cast and design team will be announced at a later date.
Strong returns to Broadway after wrapping his four-season run as Kendall Roy in HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series Succession, for which his performance has earned him an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award. Other on-screen performances include Armageddon Time, The Big Short, and The Trial of the Chicago 7. He was last seen on Broadway in 2008 making his debut opposite Frank Langella in A Man For All Seasons.
Set in a small Norwegian spa town, Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People is about Doctor Thomas Stockmann, a man of principles who discovers that the spa’s water is poisoned. He naively expects the mayor to greet the truth with gratitude, but the town’s political machine will brook no threat to its prosperity, even if it means letting thousands of people be sickened. Doctor Stockmann becomes a whistleblower, and the public campaign against him mounts, setting up a moral battle between a lone truth teller and a society desperate for self-preservation.
