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A strike by Broadway's musicians union wins supports from actors and stagehands, who pledge to honor the picket lines. Producers are forced to cancel many weekend musicals. The dispute focuses on computerized "virtual orchestras" and efforts to abolish a guaranteed minimum number of live musicians for each show. Jeff Lunden reports.

More than 100 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It's the first showing of its kind in the United States. NPR's David D'Arcy reports.

A new book details several women's efforts to fight sexual harassment and gender discrimination on Wall Street. Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Wall Street vs. Women tells the story of a whistleblower who tried to hold Wall Street accountable for its treatment of women. NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with author Susan Antilla.

Ben and Leo Sidran release their new children's CD El Elefante. The collection of original songs is in English and Spanish. Father and son started working together when the son was a child, and the collaboration grew from that. Ben is more jazz influenced; Leo is more pop- and rock-oriented. The two talk about the fun they had creating the music with NPR's Melissa Block.

Rosie Thomas loves music but she also loves to make people laugh. She's found a way to do both. A serious singer-songwriter, Thomas occasionally takes to the stage as Sheila, a neck brace-wearing pizza delivery driver who is her comic alter-ego. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Thomas about her career.

A new museum featuring the works of well-known illustrators of children's books opens in Amherst, Mass. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art showcases art from such classics as The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to Eric Carle.

It's holiday film season and that usually means big budgets and special effects. But the film Drumline puts the emphasis on storytelling. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

Jazz pianist James P. Johnson -- the "father of stride" -- once collaborated with poet Langston Hughes on De Organizer, an opera describing union organizing among blacks in the 1920s. For 60 years, the work was forgotten. But a production of the opera opens Tuesday in Detroit. Celeste Headlee of member station WDET reports.

It's been 50 years since two young women chased down poet Dylan Thomas and convinced him to put his voice on record. The formation of Caedmon Records led to today's $2-billion audiobook industry. NPR's Renee Montagne has the Caedmon story.

Pianist and Singer Hadda Brooks, known as "Queen of the Boogie," died last week at the age of 86. Brooks rose to fame in 1945 with the song, "Swingin' the Boogie." The song also helped launch the top West Coast rhythm and blues label, Modern Records. NPR's Bob Edwards has a remembrance.