A Diva Smackdown in "War Paint"
Fresh off Ryan Murphy's "Feud" comes another diva smackdown: a new musical about the rivalry between Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, who ran competing cosmetics empires. Though they never actually met, both women used eyeliner and chutzpah to reshape mid-century ideas about beauty. In "War Paint" (now in previews, at the Nederlander), with a score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie ("Grey Gardens"), they're pl…