Expect ‘Cult of Love’ To Burnish Leslye Headland’s Already Impressive Reputation
For all the crackling sardonicism in Headland’s writing, her compassion is equally compelling, if not more so. Under Trip Cullman’s typically astute direction, all the characters in ‘Cult’ are funny and touching, and none are villains.

At about this time last year, an Obie Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins, made his Broadway debut as primary playwright with “Appropriate,” a blistering tragicomedy tracing the reunion of a glaringly dysfunctional family. Leslye Headland, who covers similar terrain in the new “Cult of Love,” is more widely known for her television and film work than her stage outings — though I suspect that’s about to change.
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