He Disrupted ‘An Enemy of the People.’ Now He’ll Appear in It.

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at a performance of “An Enemy of the People,” which will feature an actor who disrupted the actual Broadway production. We’ll also look at the green light for the Gateway project under the Hudson River.

Nate Smith, in baseball cap, at a rehearsal of an adaptation of “An Enemy of the People.”Credit…James Barron/The New York Times

If you are an aspiring actor, standing up and shouting slogans during a Broadway show might not be the best way to win friends in the theater world.

But that was exactly what Nate Smith, a would-be actor who is also a climate activist, did in March, as a preview of the widely praised revival of Henrik Ibsen’s play “An Enemy of the People” neared a decisive moment.

He figured that his role in the outburst had made him persona non grata on Broadway.

But this afternoon, Smith will appear on Broadway — in a manner of speaking — in a staging of “An Enemy of the People,” alongside a cast headlined by Bill Murray and Kathryn Erbe. Jumaane Williams, the city’s public advocate, will also take part, even though he has never read the play and has said he would not look at the script before a late-afternoon rehearsal.

This production will not be the same one that Smith — a member of Extinction Rebellion, a decentralized group that has held climate change protests on Wall Street, at the U.S. Open and at the Metropolitan Opera — interrupted at Circle in the Square. This performance has been organized by Theater of War Productions, which highlights social issues by staging dramatic readings with celebrities.