You’re sitting in the audience, watching a production of “Hamlet.” The Danish prince himself enters, dressed in black. He performs his “to be or not to be” speech. He then winks at the audience and ...

From the cutthroat halls of “The West Wing” to the boozy nightclubs of “Casablanca,” drama has the power to transport us into a different place, time, and perspective (if only for a little while). But ...