‘The Crown’ creator Peter Morgan’s new play ‘Patriots’ redirects his eye for palace intrigue to the power dynamics of post-Perestroika Moscow but keeps the subject cool to the touch.
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 .