Arts & Entertainment

Oct. 14 - Oct. 17: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

Artist and educator Percy Ricks was rejected by Delaware Art Museum in a 1971 effort to showcase Black artists. The museum is making amends 50 years later.

The celebrated youth theater program is at the center of a heated dispute between local government and a nonprofit entity that wants to ‘adopt’ it.

Writer Erik Larson on his audiobook-only ghost story "No One Goes Alone," about a group of Victorian-era ghost hunters.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus is kicking off its comeback season with "Hamilton" on Oct. 20. The show runs through Nov. 28.

After losing almost all of its 25-year archive of protest puppets to the floods, the Philly nonprofit is making a more focused effort to track the histories of its work.

Two hundred concrete columns in the subway concourse were painted by homeless artists, as part of Mural Arts Philadelphia’s social service program.

Poet, educator, and activist Sonia Sanchez is this year's winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.

Oct. 7 - Oct. 10: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

In her new book, Keisha N. Blain combines traditional historical biography with modern social commentary to paint a full picture of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer.

Hollywood film and TV productions could soon shut down if contract negotiations aren't resolved.

Florence Price, the first Black woman composer to have her music played by a major American orchestra, gets a major CD release.

The theme of this year's Banned Books Week is "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us."

Want to try your hand at Afro-Brazilian beats? Just show up and play.

Sep. 30 - Oct. 3: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.