Eduardo Machado debuts a cookbook and a new play, The Cook. St. Ann's Warehouse boots the BK Hip-Hop Fest. Anne Bogart talks SITI, Mee, and a new show about the brain. If you write plays, or want to, you should join the NaPlWriMo group. (That's National Play Writing Month.) Speaking of playwriting, there's a new book about it called The Blunt Playwright - anyone read it? Is Forbidden Broadway getting a bit tired? (Or is it Broadway?) Chuck Mee's new musical, Queen's Boulevard opens at the Signature November 6. If you'd like a preview, read the whole thing here.