Rupert Murdoch doesn’t appear on stage, but he gets snapped on the backside by a wet towel of a play that does his rep little harm. J.T. Rogers’ “Corruption” had its world premiere Monday at LCT’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater.
The two-act play runs two hours 45 minutes and tells the big, sprawling story of how Labour Party politician Tom Watson (Toby Stephens) tried to bring down Murdoch’s News International in the phone-hacking scandal that went to trial in 2014. Rogers doesn’t need to give us Murdoch in the flesh on stage because he has a much better villain in Rebekah Brooks (Saffron Burrows).