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Ben Karlin, former executive producer of both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is also an alumnus of the satirical newsweekly The Onion. He left the Comedy Central shows in December 2006 to focus on his family. This interview originally aired on April 4, 2006.

Artist & Activist Rhodessa Jones talks about The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. The Project has earned attention and praise for helping to lift imprisoned women's lives and voices. The actress, teacher and a playwright discusses her portrayals of women as they persevere through major life changes have won acclaim.

Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: The Lovely Bones centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Her latest, The Almost Moon, features a middle-aged woman who murders her ailing elderly mother.

More than two dozen shows on Broadway went dark Saturday, as stagehands — who have been engaged in a bitter contract dispute with producers — went on strike. No new negotiations have been scheduled.

Fresh Air's TV critic looks at three lavish DVD box sets: David Lynch's deliciously eccentric Twin Peaks, the legendary '90s comedy Seinfeld, and the cult-classic teen drama My So-Called Life.

Watch our blog for video of President Carter, babysitter, and for a Ron Paul video festival.

Mark Jordan Legan, who writes for the online magazine Slate, offers his summary of what the critics are saying about Lars and the Real Girl, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Michael Clayton.

A comedy from dysfunctional-family expert Noah (The Squid and the Whale) Baumbach, starring Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh as sisters who loathe each other — what's not to like?

Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, is being performed on the streets of New Orleans. Actor Wendell Pierce is starring in the production, and he tells NPR's Tony Cox why the play speaks to the struggles of a post-Katrina New Orleans.

The Detroit Institute of Arts, which owns one of the most significant collections in the world, has reopened after finishing its $158 million renovation. The museum is trying to make the art more inviting, but not everyone likes their approach.