PATRIOTS

The Almeida Theatre production of
A new play by Peter Morgan
Directed by Rupert Goold
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen
With Luke Thallon

Michael Stuhlbarg (Broadway: The Pillowman; Film: A Serious Man, Call Me By Your Name; TV: “Boardwalk Empire”) returned to Broadway for the first time in almost 20 years to star in Patriots, the Almeida Theatre production of the new play by Peter Morgan, creator of “The Crown.” Patriots, which critics have called “topical and terrifying” (Air Mail), is about billionaire Boris Berezovsky, the kingmaker behind Vladimir Putin’s chilling rise to power. Original London cast member Will Keen recreated his Olivier Award-winning performance as Vladimir Putin. Patriots also featured original London cast member Luke Thallon (Evening Standard Award nominee for the Almeida’s Albion) as Russian oligarch and politician Roman Abramovich.

Patriots, which won the 2023 Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play, came to Broadway following a record-breaking run at London’s Almeida Theatre where it was the fastest-selling new play in the theatre’s history, and a sold out 12-week run in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre, where it recouped its investment.

Directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold, Patriots opened April 22, 2024 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and played through June 23, 2024.

The 18-member cast also featured Stella Baker as Marina Litvinenko; Ronald Guttman as Professor Perelman; Alex Hurt as Alexander Litvinenko; Rosie Benton as Berezovsky’s Mother & Others; Jeff Biehl as Teacher/FSB Boss & Others; Peter Bradbury as Voloshin/Nurse & Others; Camila Canó-Flaviá as Tatiana/Nina Berezovsky & Others; Marianna Gailus as Katya & Others; Paul Kynman as Korzhakov/Yeltsin & Others; Adam Poss as Lawyer/Home Office & Others; and Nick Rehberger as Assistant/Kahneman & Others. Understudies are Benjamin Bonenfant, Danielle Chaves, Joe Forbrich and Tony Ward.   

In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs – and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky (Stuhlbarg). “If the politicians cannot save Russia,” he insists, “then we businessmen must.” When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin (Keen). But soon Putin’s ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky’s reign, setting off a riveting, near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men.

The creative team for Patriots featured three-time Tony Award nominated set designer Miriam Buether, co-costume designers Deborah Andrews and Miriam Buether, lighting designer Jack Knowles, Tony Award-winning sound designer and composer Adam Cork, movement director Polly Bennett and projection designer Ash J Woodward and movement director Polly Bennett. Casting is by Jim Carnahan, CSA. US general management is by TT Partners.

Patriots was produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Netflix, Nederlander Presentations, Richard Winkler, Stephanie P. McClelland, Ted Snowdon, Jamie deRoy/Ken Greiner, and Richard Batchelder.

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