Jake Heggie's version of “Dead Man Walking” reaches the Metropolitan Opera for the season’s opening night in a production by Tony and Olivier Award winner Ivo van Hove starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean.

Novelist Naomi Alderman is a “what if” kind of writer, as in: What if women were endowed with the ability to electrocute others.

1958: Actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins, best known for his roles in movies such as "Bull Durham," "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Mystic River," for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, is born in West Covina, California.