Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really—Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Organic veggies at the root of conflict.

Doug Wright just can’t stay away from weirdos. His play Quills dramatized the Marquis de Sade’s exploits, and I Am My Own Wife told the story of an East German transvestite informant. And now he’s written the book for a new musical, Grey Gardens.

Seven steps to Broadway, then drama club-and back.

Cate Blanchett on Ibsen’s female Hamlet—a role she was dragged into “a bit kicking and screaming.”

In his TV debut as Luke in The O.C. former Abercrombie & Fitch model Chris Carmack, 25, played Mischa Barton’s first boyfriend—and her mother’s booty call of choice. But now he stars as the object of Alec Baldwin’s advances in the Off Broadway production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

Can real estate inspire great art?

Former child actor Eliza Dushku finds herself Off Broadway in the dark “Peanuts” parody Dog Sees God.

The Dancer's Life turns the story of Chita Rivera's life and career into a kind of meta-musical, with biography giving way to a mix of new and revived songs.

"I remember saying to my daughter, 'Lisa, if you see me doing something absolutely absurd, if I lose my mind one day and have too much makeup or my skirt's too short, please tell your mother.'"