Brian O’Byrne, who’s just opened to impressive reviews in his first straight-to-Broadway premiere, Conor McPherson’s eerie Shining City, curses easily, but he won’t say the word career: “I think I got lucky.”

Christine Ebersole chats about—and with—Little Edie Beale.

This fall’s Broadway transfer of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed suggests a new subgenre: the Agent Morality Play.

Q&A with the 'The Little Dog Laughed' actress.

Five writers on how they get by with a little help from their friends (and Playboy).

Who will soar? Who might sink?

Q: Unlike their subjects, literary biographies have a terrible tendency to fall rapidly out of favor -- and out of print. Boswell on Johnson and Trotsky on Stalin are still on the shelves, but where can I find Cross on Sterne? Or Clutterbuck on Wordsworth?

Writers talk about what they almost called their books.