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Productions Peter Pan have reflected changing social attitudes toward children over the years. The result is that until recently, Peter, the boy who wouldn't grow up, was played by a woman. NPR's Pat Dowell explores the history of the character.

Playwright Eve Ensler became an international phenomenon with her one-woman show, The Vagina Monologues. Now she's back with a new play about the rest of the female anatomy. It's called The Good Body, and it follows Ensler's own attempts to make peace with her aging figure.

When they aren't seeing patients, many doctors moonlight as musicians. Doctors' orchestras exist in a handful of cities around the country. Many doctors say these groups help them unwind. Some think it makes them better physicians, too. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

As part of the first cast of Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd helped bring the Coneheads and the Blues Brothers to life. We talk with Aykroyd about two new projects: the book Elwood's Blues: interviews with the Blues Legends and Stars, and the upcoming movie Christmas with the Kranks.

A new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library offers a glimpse at correspondences four centuries old. "Letter Writing in Renaissance England" includes letters penned in invisible ink, sealed in wax and silk, and sent to and from some of the most famous figures in history.

Some of classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz's favorite movie themes just happen to belong to films just released on DVD. He reviews four of them: Gone with the Wind, Freaks, I Vitelloni, and The Golden Coach.

NPR's Alex Chadwick interviews Sean Fine, the producer and cinematographer of True Dads, a documentary that looks at six different fathers and how they've overcome adversity to raise their families. Fine also talks about how the process of making the film affected relationships in his own family.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Pedro Almodovar about his film Bad Education. He says it was one of his hardest films to make, because the story is so close to his own experiences.

The latest film from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet takes place in France at the end of World War I. A Very Long Engagement is the story of a young woman's search for a fiancee she doesn't believe is dead. Audrey Tatou, who played the lead in Jeunet's 2001 comedy hit Amelie, stars again. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Kenny Juarez, the 11-year-old writer whose radio play Sliced by an Artist is airing on Day to Day. Juarez wrote the play when he was 9 years old. Joining the conversation is Dustin Hoffman, who narrates the play.