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A new play about Iraq is drawing strong reviews in New York. Nine Parts of Desire is a solo performance by Iraqi-American actor Heather Raffo, who gives voice to nine different Iraqi women. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

Dionne Warwick started singing at six. She reached stardom in the 1960s, wrapping her sophisticated voice around memorable pop tunes. Now she's out with her first-ever collection of holiday music, My Favorite Time of the Year. She tells NPR's Tavis Smiley about it.

Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, 83, was a mentor to Miles Davis and performed with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. He recently donated his archive of memorabilia to William Paterson University in New Jersey. NPR's Jacki Lyden interviews Terry just before he takes the stage at New York's Jazz Gallery.

The eloquent, effortless jazz singer Jimmy Scott has gained a new prominence after languishing for decades, the victim of bad deals, bad timing and a fickle public. But he's never lost the energy and humanity that put him on the road to fame as a teenager.

This week, Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth looks at the documentary Born into Brothels. The film looks at children of Indian prostitutes and was filmed by the children themselves. According to Turan, the technique works and creates surprisingly uplifting stories.

Before synthesizers and samplers, Bebe and Louis Barron created otherworldly electronic sounds.

Robert Wilonsky of The Dallas Observer shares his memories of comic book artist Will Eisner, who died Monday night at age 87. Eisner created the character called "The Spirit," and was an inspiration for a whole generation of comic book artists.

German choreographer Pina Bausch is one of the giant figures of modern dance, and her work gained greater notoriety when director Pedro Almodovar featured one of her works in his film Talk to Her. On Tuesday, the notoriously press-shy choreographer premieres For the Children of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

The brilliant Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba talks with NPR's Tony Cox about Paseo, his first album in three years.

John Waters' films have been described as raunchy, perverse and hilarious. So it comes as no surprise that he would pick a scene from a 1959 William Castle horror movie as one of his own favorites. Waters talks with NPR's Susan Stamberg.