NPR's Michele Norris talks with Jim Lacey, correspondent for Time Magazine, traveling with the 101st Airborne Division, about developments in Najaf in central Iraq.
Through powerful monologues, Anna Deavere Smith has tackled race riots, integration and health care. In Notes from the Field, she's using her characters to explore the school-to-prison pipeline.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is finishing a run on her latest work, "Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1,2 & 3)" at The Public Theater in New York.