In “Lizzie,” we come to know Borden’s inner turmoil, not only by her periodic “spells” but also in the way that the camera captures a bewitching Chloë Sevigny.

Lizzie Borden was acquitted of killing her parents in a brutal ax attack in 1892, but the rock musical “Lizzie” thinks she was guilty. Make that gleefully guilty. The subversive glee is part ...

We begin with the events of Aug. 4, 1892 when Lizzie Borden “discovered” the bodies of her father and stepmother, both brutally murdered hours apart, while she was allegedly outside eating a pear.