‘The Audience’ takes a closer look at Queen Elizabeth

Ahead of the Tony Awards this weekend, a look at the state of the American musical

A classic by Flannery O’Connor comes to life.

‘Hamilton’ tells a true American story

In 1912, at the tender age of 24, an aimless, alcoholic college dropout named Eugene O’Neill tried to commit suicide in a New York City flophouse called Jimmy-the-Priest. By then he’d already been married, had a son and divorced, and there was much more personal tumult to come in his eve

Depending on when you date its birth, it took rock music as much as a decade and a half to move from the pop charts to the Broadway stage, with 1968’s “Hair.” Hip-hop has been with us nearly twice as long—at least 30 years, if you measure by mainstream success—and as su