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Rehearsals are under way for a version of Shakespeare's Macbeth that will use magic tricks, fright and humor on stage. Co-directors Teller (of Penn & Teller ) and Aaron Posner talk to Robert Siegel about the production.

In this week's Wisdom Watch, a conversation with legendary theater, film and television actress Ruby Dee. Dee talks about her life in the arts and the civil rights movement, her role in American Gangster and going on without her late husband and best friend, Ossie Davis.

Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, the famed portrait of life in the Watts area of Los Angeles in the 1970s, was recently re-released. In this week's Wisdom Watch, Burnett discusses the perseverance required to finally win an audience for the film.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York is trying to decide whether to adopt an outer coat of off-gray, or one of very pale yellow. The debate over the color differences is subtle, but the debate over the two colors is very robust.

Stephen Colbert's late-night comedy news show, The Colbert Report, tackles prominent issues with a decidedly irreverent spin. This interview originally aired Oct. 9, 2007.

Golden State Mutual, a black-owned insurance company, auctioned off their entire collection earlier this month. Some pieces sold for three times their appraised value. Why is some African-American fine art increasing in worth? Nigel Freeman of Swann Galleries and Bill Hodges of Bill Hodges Galleries explain.

With perhaps only months to live, professor Randy Pausch, 46, gave one last lecture — on fulfilling your childhood dreams. The video has become an online hit.

In his latest film, Dan in Real Life, the actor stars as a single father who falls for a woman who turns out to be his brother's girlfriend. Carell, who starred in The 40 Year Old Virgin and Little Miss Sunshine, is a former correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

The latest in a string of lost-children dramas, well acted and reasonably affecting — if a little heavy on the plot coincidences linking a hit-and-run driver (Mark Ruffalo) and a grieving father (Joaquin Phoenix).

Last week, Lisa Moore, a character in the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strip, lost her eight-year fight with breast cancer. The story line has garnered mixed reactions — some readers applaud the strip's approach to weighty topics; others argue that comics should simply be funny.