Up until July 2011, the British tabloid News of the World was consistently among the best-selling papers in the world. Then news broke that reporters at the paper, owned by Rupert Murdoch, had hacked the phones of a murdered 13 year old, relatives of dead British soldiers, and victims of a London terrorist attack. A public inquiry was called, a decade of phone hacking became public, and Murdoch and his son James admitted to covering up the extent of the crime. In the book Dial M for Murdoch, the Labour MP Tom Watson, who sat on the Commons committee presiding over the matter, teamed up with the journalist Martin Hickman to tell the story, which ended with the paper’s demise. Now, J. T. Rogers has adapted the book for the stage. “The play is about the moment when people realized there isn’t an agreed-upon truth anymore,” says Rogers. His longtime collaborator Bartlett Sher directs. —Jensen Davis

Previews for Corruption begin on February 15; opening night is March 11.