‘Ink’ Theater Review: Rupert Murdoch Learns The Tabloid Darks Arts Brilliantly On Broadway

Rupert Murdoch has done as much to shape the modern era in the English-speaking world as anyone. His Fox News network helped elect Donald Trump as president. But before there was Fox News, Murdoch learned the dark arts of tabloid journalism after he acquired the London newspaper The Sun. In 1969, his editor Larry Lamb and a misfit crew of reporters took Murdoch up on his challenge to turn the last-place paper into the country’s #1 newspaper in just one year. Lamb does it by sensationalizing the kidnapping of the wife of The Sun‘s publisher. And then pushed it over the edge by adding topless women to the mix. Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller are simply brilliant as Murdoch and Lamb in the genius London production of James Graham‘s Ink, which open last night at the Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel Friedman Theatre. Understanding the genesis of the tabloid culture – and how it went all so terribly wrong – has never been more thrilling.

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Ink is now playing at the Samuel Friedman Theatre (126 W. 47th St,. New York, N.Y.).