Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Netflix is getting into the business of Broadway. The streaming behemoth is producing the upcoming play “Patriots,” from “The Crown” creator Peter Morgan.
The show, set in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union, is about Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a billionaire who helped orchestrate the ruthless rise of Vladimir Putin.
He later became a vocal critic of Russia’s president and wound up dead. This will serve as Netflix’s Broadway debut, but it won’t be the company’s first foray to the stage.
The company also produced the West End play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a spinoff of Netflix’s wildly successful sci-fi series.
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