New Conservatory Theatre Center will open its 2014-15 season with a play that dared newspapers to speak its name: They say ’The Cockfight Play’; we say ’Cock.’

In his play "The Habit of Art," Alan Bennett imagines a late-life meeting between poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten in which the former collaborators fuss at each other over, among other things, openness about their homosexuality.

Not long after winning a Tony Award at age 11 for "The Secret Garden," Daisy Eagan was on stage at Carnegie Hall singing "Broadway Baby." Now she’s got her own baby, who’s hitting the road with Mom...