Patriots

It's been nearly two decades since Michael Stuhlbarg, one of the great stage actors of his generation, last trod Broadway's boards (in The Pillowman). The vehicle for his overdue return is a modern-modern history play by Peter Morgan (The Crown) that depicts the machinations of Russia's oligarchs in the power vaccuum that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Stuhlbarg plays billionaire Boris Berezovsky in a transfer of Rupert Goold's hit London production; Will Keen (as Vladimir Putin) and Luke Thallon (as Roman Abramovich) reprise their acclaimed performances in that version.