Cult of Love

Now at the Helen Hayes Theater, *Cult of Love* arrives in New York as a dramatic play with music by American writer Leslye Headland. Set against the rituals and pressures of family life, it uses songs as part of the storytelling rather than as decoration, letting shifts in mood register in real time. Its current Broadway run marks a visible step for Headland’s stage work in the city’s commercial theater landscape. One clear takeaway is how the piece treats belief as a social force, not a private conviction.