Somewhere beyond the barricade, is there a world you long to see? There’s no more overtly theological (or more popular) musical than Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boubil’s 1980 Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel. From Valjean and Javert to Eponine and Fantine, this musical...

Immigration, capitalism, feminism, intersectionality, and the civil rights: Ragtime has it all! But is it actually just an extended commercial for Ford?