Ads for David Mamet's new play proclaim it his "most explosive four-letter word yet." Mamet has always courted controversy on hot-button issues. "Race", now on Broadway, is about a diverse team of lawyers defending a white man accused of raping a black woman. Kurt sees the show with ...

It's hard to keep your idiosyncrasies and still be a Hollywood success. From "Beetlejuice" to "Batman" to "Sweeney Todd," Burton's work is unmistakably personal. Dark, whimsical creations from his entire career fill several galleries at The Museum of Modern Art.

Every year the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings to be preserved for all time. One song chosen this year is "O Que è Que a Bahiana Tem," a samba recorded by Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda in 1939.

Acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl turned a strange episode of medical history – the use, by doctors, of electric vibrators to treat women for emotional problems - into a play, now on Broadway. Ruhl was interested in "anything to do with the 19th century that you ...

Three decades after her debut, Rickie Lee Jones says her new album, Balm in Gilead, saved her life by helping her get over a tough breakup. It's also helping her audiences. She told Kurt, "When the tour started, people were weeping, but by the end of ...

Rickie Lee Jones performs the track from her album Balm In Gilead live in Studio 360.