Who would have thought the life of former President Hamilton would make good theatre, or that T. S. Elliot’s reference to cats in, “The Waste Land” would inspire a Broadway musical?  Certainly, I’d have scoffed at either project had they been suggested to me.  That both thea

Literature has been no more kind to its prostitutes than real life has been. While fallen wives have made memorable heroines — Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina among them —  few novels feature the travails of working girls.  Fannie Hill and Moll Flanders are the exception