To understand Broadway’s newest composer, you have to start in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. But that’s not where you’ll really find her.

Matt Cavenaugh, the star-crossed Tony of West Side Story, and Jenny Powers, co-star of Happiness, are getting married in Boston this August. They spoke to Jesse Oxfeld.

Labute's Reasons to Be Pretty isn't much to look at; Rock of Ages is in on its own joke, which ruins all the fun.

Kurt Vonnegut once ruefully admitted that writing antiwar novels is about as effective as writing anti-glacier novels.

Is Broadway ready for a rock musical about bipolar disorder?

Hair retains its wispy elation on Broadway. Plus, An Oresteia’s beautiful marathon of blood.

A daffily powerful one-person play that re-creates the book First Blood. With M&Ms.

Irena's Vow and Exit the King can be insufferable (the plays), sometimes riveting (the performances), and both improve with humor.

Leslie Kritzer, star of Off Broadway’s Rooms, has a whole other career as diva slayer.

Actors trump material in the theatrical smackdown God of Carnage and the more muted Impressionism.