Just how enormous an undertaking is Tom Stoppard’s epic three-evening play about nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals? As the first third opens this weekend, a selective breakdown.

It’s not gay marriage, exactly, but last week’s decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court to require the state to create a legally viable same-sex union caused some confirmed city folk to wonder, How bad would it be to be a Jersey commuter? So we popped the question to a few gay men:

Writers talk about what they almost called their books.

Q&A with the "Prisoners: A Muslim & a Jew Across the Middle East Divide" author.

Q&A with the 'Heartbreak House' actress.

Ex-gov didn’t want to just read a “Top Ten List.”

Ed Harris is not a control freak. Got that?

He understands now it’s campy.

His new follow-up, A Spot of Bother, follows a surprisingly ordinary father, George, sent into a panic by a patch of eczema he’s convinced is terminal cancer.

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