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Playwright David Henry Hwang's award-winning plays include 1980's FOB (or "Fresh Off the Boat") and M. Butterfly. For our series Scenes I Wish I'd Written, Hwang discusses an exchange from Tony Kushner's play Angels in America.

Screenwriter Simon Nye's most recent work is the Pollyanna, showing Sunday night on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Nye talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about the challenges -- and "glad things" -- about working with Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel.

Writer Suzan-Lori Parks has won acclaim for depictions of African-American life. The author of Topdog/Underdog discusses two of her favorite dramatic scenes, from The Sound of Music and Taxi Driver.

Architect and author Christopher Alexander recently issued the final book of his four-volume tome, The Nature of Order, In it, he attempts to define and understand the "life" and livability of structures, spaces and cities.

Writer Mark Jordan summarizes what the critics are saying about the final film releases of 2004. Legan considers the films Beyond the Sea, In Good Company and The Merchant of Venice.

At age 70, the late writer and former boxing "cut man" F.X. Toole published his first book, a collection of short stories about boxing called Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, to critical praise. We rebroadcast a Sept. 26, 2000, interview with Toole.

Reese Erlich reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the evolution of tango music in the South American nation where the dance was born. Musicians are now fusing tango with electronic instruments -- a controversial move in a genre that values tradition.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, a new film premiering on HBO. The movie uses unique cinematic devices to reveal the complex life of actor Peter Sellers, played by Geoffrey Rush.

Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan says the film Alexander, starring Colin Ferrell as the conqueror Alexander the Great, plays like a fantasy self portrait of writer-director Oliver Stone.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum.