Broadway had a record year at the box office. But “the box-office upturn has not gladdened some local critics. They have seized the occasion of this Sunday’s Tony Awards to bemoan the dearth of serious new work on Broadway: a hackneyed lament. For at least three decades, cost has dictated that challenging drama be based off-Broadway and in America’s regional theatres, where, despite the price of tickets and the distractions of television and the internet, it remains quite robust.”