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Film critic David Edelstein reviews Alexander, starring Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie.

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.

"Danza Voluminosa" is an unconventional dance group -- whose performances are part-ballet, part-contemporary dance. But the dancers are larger than most weighing in around 200 pounds. Their choreographer says the company is creating a new aesthetic. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports.

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.

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.

The latest work from the author of In the Company of Men premieres at New York's Lucille Lortel Theater. Neil LaBute's Fat Pig tells the story of a weight-challenged woman and a gutless executive who fall in love. Andrea Shea reports.

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.

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

HBO has signed a lucrative deal with fellow cable channel A&E for sanitized versions of Sopranos reruns. The mob drama has drawn a record $2.5 million per episode in syndication.