Londoners Pleased With Live Broadcast Of 'Phedre'

DVD Picks: 'Prime Suspect'
Bob Mondello says that as American television prepares to try again with a version of Prime Suspect, you check out the groundbreaking original with Helen Mirren on DVD.» E-Mail This ...

'Weird Sisters' Quote Shakespeare To Communicate
Eleanor Brown speaks with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about her new novel, The Weird Sisters, which imagines the lives of three sisters and their obsessive Shakespearean scholar...

For Shakespeare's 'Tempest,' A Motley Makeover
Changing Shakespeare's Prospero into a woman may be an interesting twist on an oft-told tale, but even Helen Mirren's magic can't elevate this yarn above its tangle of tones and...

Handel: Water Music Suites

The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath...