April 25, 2012  |   Art Beat talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn abuot his new play, "The Columnist."

March 20, 2012  |   EmbedVideo(2962, 514, 320); On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections between education and national security. He...

December 1, 2011  |   His photographs don't enjoy nearly the same popular and iconic appeal as those of his one-time mentor Ansel Adams. But a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is paying homage the under-appreciated yet innovative work of American photographer Harry Callahan.

October 20, 2011  |   You may not yet recognize artist, writer and cartoonist Daniel Clowes by name, but there's a growing chance that you've been exposed to his work. His latest work to be published into hardcover form is "The Death-Ray," a very different take on the superhero genre.

March 4, 2011  |   Edward Albee's classic American play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" has been revived in an acclaimed production by the Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago, and is currently onstage here in Washington at the Arena Stage.

February 23, 2011  |   Joe Lovano is taking the music of Charlie Parker and putting his own spin on some of Bird's compositions, while making sure the original music remains clearly traceable to the great tenor saxophonist.

February 7, 2011  |   Monday on the NewsHour, Judy Woodruff sits down with Smith for a look at her latest work, Let Me Down Easy, which takes up the many-voiced debate on health care in America.

May 28, 2010  |   In his backyard in Denver, Ray Tomasso calls paper making 17th-century-style recycling. His workshop is filled with boxes of old cotton rags, blue jeans, rag board and scraps of paper -- the perfect material for his art.

April 14, 2010  |   Bipolar disorder and the emotional toll mental illness takes on a family are not standard fare for Broadway musicals, let alone Broadway hits. But that is the subject of "Next to Normal" which has managed to draw both commercial and critical success. On Monday it earned another honor: It was named winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making it just the eighth musical in history to receive that award.

February 24, 2010  |   Actor Ethan Hawke is best known for his work in film, including early successes like "Reality Bites" and "Before Sunrise." Hawke's latest project is directing a major off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1985 play, "A Lie of the Mind."