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Tony-winner Phylicia Rashad returns to Broadway this fall in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. She tells NPR's Michele Norris she likes to surround herself with nature while preparing for her roles.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Weekend Edition ambassador to the world of kiddie literature, Daniel Pinkwater, about a book written by Arlo Guthrie and illustrated by Alice M. Brock (of Alice's Restaurant fame). The book is called Mooses Come Walking.

Franks, formerly the commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command, led the American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He says the United States did not anticipate the insurgency that followed the invasion of Iraq, and he warns against underestimating Osama bin Laden. He's written a new memoir, American Soldier.

Time magazine calls Gehry the world's most famous architect. Gehry just designed an outdoor music pavilion for Chicago's new Millennium Park, a former rail yard that's been transformed into a destination for the arts. He designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Family Circle magazine makes a habit of publishing the signature cookie recipes of incumbent and aspiring first ladies. So far, the lady with the readers' favorite cookies has ended up in the White House. Two partisans, Republican Linda Tarplin and her Democrat husband Rich, compare Laura Bush's Oatmeal Chocolate Chunks with Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spices. NPR's Susan Stamberg officiates.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, by Nigel Slater, and Lilla's Feat: A Story of Food, Love and War in the Orient, by Frances Osbourne.

Critic-at-large John Powers reviews a new two-DVD version of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

Jonathan Caouette made Tarnation, a documentary about his difficult childhood, for just over $200. But the film earned accolades at the Sundance, Cannes and New York Film festivals. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new political mock documentary series, Tanner on Tanner. The four-part political satire was written by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman. It airs Tuesdays in October on the Sundance Channel.

Political theater is all most people are talking about today, but Hollywood has been dealing a lot lately with theater of the old fashioned sort -- the kind that happens on stage. Hear NPR's Bob Mondello.