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Filmmaker Brian De Palma has been making movies and stirring controversy for more than 40 years. His films include Scarface and Casualties of War; his new Redacted retells a true story about a rape and murder committed in Iraq by U.S. soldiers.

Our cultural concierge, Jesse Kornbluth, urges revisiting the 1983 comedy, Local Hero. The soundtrack of this overlooked film – about Scottish villagers who thwart an American oil company's efforts to buy their land — is just as entertaining as the premise.

"Seduced" at the Barbican Gallery attempts to show 2,500 years of sexuality in world art, and to explore how attitudes about what is erotic art and what is pornography have changed through the ages. It's billed as the most sexually explicit fine-art exhibition ever staged.

Brian de Palma is one of cinema's most hypnotic stylists, a virtuoso who can expand your perception of space, time and motion onscreen. So when he throws away his jazzy technique and goes for rough-hewn and immediate — as in Redacted — it's a major statement.

The curtain will go up Thursday on most of the Broadway shows that have been closed for 19 days by a stagehands strike. Stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night on the fight, which has kept more than two dozen shows in the dark.

Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, is being performed on the streets of New Orleans. Actor Wendell Pierce is starring in the production, and he tells NPR's Tony Cox why the play speaks to the struggles of a post-Katrina New Orleans.

From Darth Vader to Scarlett O'Hara, the best fictional characters reflect something about who we are and how we got here. In Character, a six-month series from NPR, explores indelible American characters from fiction, folklore and pop culture.

The program's Magazine Mavens — Angela Burt-Murray of Essence, Anita Malik of EastWest and Cynthia Good of Pink — take listeners inside their magazine stories. They discuss healthcare, an interview with televangelist Juanita Bynum and a chat with Tyra Banks.

The latest experiment in the eclectic career of filmmaker Todd Haynes: I'm Not There, a kind of fantasia on the various public personas of Bob Dylan. Six different actors — including Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett — play the famously protean singer.

Photographer Allan Tannenbaum was given rare access to John Lennon just 10 days before the artist was killed. He discusses his decision to wait 27 years to publish the intimate photos he shot of Lennon and Yoko Ono.