Sharp and perfectly developed, Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive sets driving lessons between a young woman named Li'l Bit (Elizabeth Reaser) and her Uncle Peck (Norbert Leo Butz) as the foundation for an inappropriate affair.

After suffering through years of fourth-place finishes, NBC primetime has set its sights on the invigorating Smash to save the network from ratings purgatory.

With a background in theater, soaps, and indies, Peter Vack's major TV comedic debut is a slight change of pace for the USC grad and native New Yorker, who was reciting Shakespeare with seasoned actors while his high-school peers toiled away with the Sparknotes.

Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.

Writer Ramona Ausubel defies the harnesses of history with her debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us. During World War II, an isolated Jewish village in Romania decides to ignore the horrors of the real world and start over from scratch.