Michael Stuhlbarg returns to Broadway after man allegedly hurled a rock at his head

Actor Michael Stuhlbarg kicked off his newest Broadway show on Monday, a day after a man allegedly threw a rock at the actor’s head on Sunday evening. A spokesperson for the New York Police confirmed to The Times that officers responded to a 911 call “of an assault in progress” near 90th Street and East Drive in the Central Park precinct of Manhattan at approximately 7:45 p.m. EDT on Sunday. Police and prosecutors allege that 27-year-old Xavier Israel, whom the report describes as unhoused, hurled the rock at the back of his victim’s head, “causing an abrasion.” Police say Stuhlbarg chased Israel to the front of the Russian Consulate office on East 91st Street, where officers took Israel into custody. In legal documents shared with The Times, an unnamed woman said that the assault on Stuhlbarg caused “redness and swelling to the back of his head and substantial pain.” The Times did not immediately hear back from a legal representative for Israel. In “Patriots,” Stuhlbarg stars as late tycoon Boris Berezovsky, the man “behind Vladimir Putin‘s chilling rise to power,” a release for the production says.