Patriots true story: The Crown's creator turns Putin's rise into a Shakespearean drama.

Vladimir Putin’s rise to power is the stuff of Shakespearean drama, so it’s no surprise that the tale is now the subject of a play, which ran on London’s West End last summer and opened on Broadway this week. It doesn’t necessarily follow that such a play would be a commercial success, but it was a hit in England, and it’s a hot ticket in New York, though for reasons quite apart from mass interest in the subject matter.
The play, called Patriots, was written by Peter Morgan, the […]
Patriots true story: The Crown's creator turns Putin's rise into a Shakespearean drama.