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Review: ‘Patriots’ on Broadway is a gripping, juicy drama about Vladimir Putin

Michael Stuhlbarg takes a bow during the curtain call following the "Patriots" Broadway opening at Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York.

NEW YORK — As fans of “The Crown” know well, the British writer Peter Morgan is singularly adept at explaining how the most basic human emotions — pride, pique, greed, sexual need, raging insecurity — impact magnitudinous global events. In “Patriots,” Morgan’s newest Broadway play, he turns his attention to the Kremlin and the rise, with no fall yet in sight, of the obscure deputy mayor turned one of

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