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An American Idol-style contest to choose the stars of Broadway's latest Grease revival wasn't exactly a ratings smash. But hefty advance ticket sales means that the NBC series may have been a success in a different way: as a marketing gimmick.

For centuries, Venice maintained strong economic and social ties with the Islamic world. The city's art and architecture bear the mark of this vibrant exchange.

The Body Snatchers remake, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, proves the pulp classic is still startlingly in tune with the U.S. zeitgeist.

For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. In her new novel, she takes a long look back over her shoulder to try to fathom the origins of human life.

A new play that reworks one of literature's great myths has had its world premiere in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood is an adaptation of her book by the same name.

British documentary is disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving — the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own creation.

Near the town of Alliance, Neb., stands an installation called Carhenge. The artwork replicates Stonehenge in England, but in the form of 38 vintage American cars, half buried in the ground. Carhenge draws about 30,000 tourists a month during the summer, and it turns 20 this weekend.

In 1861, Elizabeth Packard was forcibly removed from her home and committed to an insane asylum because she disagreed with her Calvinist husband's religious beliefs. Playwright Emily Mann tells her story in the Kennedy Center's presentation of Mrs. Packard.

19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists.

Hollywood puts the planet in peril again with Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer. The comics were hip enough to last for more than 40 years, but the movie treatment is far from must-see cinema.