The buzzy new revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” has a pivotal scene that takes place in a town hall meeting, during which a crusading doctor, played by Jeremy Strong, warns his community about a looming public health crisis. Over the weekend, during the play’s press previews, three protesters disrupted the show with passionate pleas about a different impending catastrophe — the climate crisis that is warming the planet.
The activists, who included 35 year-old theater actor Nate Smith, interrupted the show three separate times, shouting phrases like”No theater on a dead planet” before one of the stars Michael Imperioli (without breaking character) began pushing
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