A new classic has entered the canon: Audra McDonald’s performance of “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy at this week’s Tony Awards. Watch it here.

Gypsy’s famous stage mother, played by shrieking Audra McDonald, is racialized in Broadway’s latest instance of gaslighting.

McDonald and LuPone have sent the theater world alight with their bitter feud that has seen the latter beginning a war of ...