Cult of Love would be a laugh-a-minute romp if it wasn't for the long-simmering tension and sharp gut-punches. And that's by the design; after all, the laughter and smiles aren't shallow, ...

The clever element of "Cult of Love," Leslye Headland's play first performed in 2018 and newly on Broadway at Second Stage's Hayes Theater, is its subversion of a certain holiday-season trope.

That seasonal setting of “Cult of Love” has another resonance, too. The holiday season is primetime for moralizing plays — you know, stories where bankers and hedge-fund types sit and ...

Cult of Love has its origins in Headland’s “Seven Deadly Plays” series for the Los Angeles-based IAMA Theatre Company. First staged at IAMA in 2018, Cult of Love examines the sin of ...

Larger themes notwithstanding, Cult of Love is mostly concerned with exploring just such complicated smallness. With an analytic precision that is tempered by sympathy and humor, Headland expertly ...

Leslye Headland's play 'Cult of Love' is being developed into a feature film by Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum's Gloria Sanchez Productions banner.