Michael Stuhlbarg stars as Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who helped fuel Vladimir Putin’s political rise in the 1990s, in Peter Morgan’s intelligent historical drama.

In Peter Morgan's tantalizing but disappointing new play "Patriots," Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin from a middling “nobody" to an autocrat who will transform his country in ways unforeseen at home or globally.

Patriots” offers up a potted history of Russia from the 1990s, the era of bumbling Boris Yeltsin, to the present.

"The Crown" creator delivers a first-rate comedy about Putin and the oligarchs -- the second act of his play is another story The post ‘Patriots’ Broadway Review: After Serving Up the Royals, Peter Morgan Takes on the Russians appeared first on TheWrap.