Michael Schulman: An Australian comic translates Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” for Broadway. by Michael Schulman

Three years before Roald Dahl died, he was stumped by a five-year-old. Like many of his protagonists, Matilda Wormwood was a precocious youngster surrounded by monstrous adults and grotesque peers. But in early drafts of “Matilda,” Dahl had painted her as a wicked child who uses . . . (Subscription required.)

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