The Ides of July. Sondheim on Assassins. Stageworthy News of the Week
"Oh, Mary," which opened on Broadway this past week, is meant to be funny and deliberately tasteless; one scene in it, reimagining the first American presidential assassination, turns out to be especially ill-timed. A song in a Broadway show no longer running, controversial in its day, feels more timely: "Lots of madmen have had their...