Rupert Murdoch’s Grande Scandale Sparks Back to Life

During the past week, J.T. Rogers, Tony-winning playwright, was intently trying to straighten out the remaining kinks in “Corruption,” his new production about the News Corp phone-hacking scandal of a decade ago, through daytime rehearsals and nightly preview performances at New York’s Lincoln Center. He still wanted to perfect how the characters’ tweets would appear onstage, and he also worked on a scene involving U.K. parliamentary mechanics with lead star Toby Stephens, the surly hero of various streaming series (Netflix’s …

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