THEATER

Hellman and McCarthy: Parallels and Crossings

By JULIA M. KLEIN

It's a common theatrical conceit to imagine confrontations between real-life characters who never met, but should have. Friedrich von Schiller famously invented a rendezvous between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her rival, Mary Queen of Scots, to climax his 19th-century verse tragedy Maria Stuart. Tom Stoppard habitually brings historical characters,...

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