Skip to content
NPR's Morning Edition takes listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Morning Edition is the most listened-to news radio program in the country.

Morning Edition

Listen Live

Listen Live

In-depth analysis and commentary on today's biggest news stories as only the BBC can deliver. BBC
Next

BBC Newshour

In-depth analysis and commentary on today's biggest news stories as only the BBC can deliver. BBC "Newshour" covers everything from the growth of democracy to the threat of terrorism with a fresh, clear perspective from across the globe.

WHYY
rewind
play
fast-forward
 
 
 
Radio Schedule
WHYY
  • DONATE
Primary Menu
  • News
  • Radio & Podcasts
    • Radio Schedule
    • Ways to Stream
    • WHYY Listen App
  • TV
    • WHYY TV Schedule
    • Live TV
    • Watch on Demand
    • Stream PBS Kids
  • Arts
  • Events
  • Education
    • WHYY Early Education Programs
    • For Students
    • Pathways to Media Careers
    • WHYY Media Labs
    • Youth Media Awards
  • Support
    • Membership
    • WHYY Passport
    • WHYY Member Portal
    • Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donation Program
    • Volunteer
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE

Arts & Entertainment

The Fox Studios sign is pictured at the entrance to the lot, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox's entertainment assets is set to close around 12 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. (Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)
Movies

In end of 20th Century Fox, a new era dawns for Hollywood

When the Walt Disney Co.'s $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox is completed at 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, the storied lot will no longer house one of the six major studios.

6 years ago

The ensemble of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

An off-season Fringe, with the spotlight on local successes

The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.

6 years ago

Workman hoist the White Water sculpture off of its base to a flat bed truck.  White Water, a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Robinson Fredenthal is moved from the garden behind the Wells Fargo building in Old City to its new home at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Public Spaces
Sculpture

How a massive Robinson Fredenthal sculpture moved to Chestnut Hill in the dead of night

The “White Water” sculpture had been in downtown Philadelphia for 40 years. It now lives on the front lawn of the Woodmere Museum.

6 years ago

Listen 1:57
The Trocadero theater on Arch Street in Chinatown. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Kung fu to zombies, remembering the Trocadero

Philly’s 150-year-old Chinatown concert venue will close at the end of the month.

6 years ago

Bria Blauvelt rehearses with the newly formed Whistling Orchestra of Philadelphia. She traveled from her home in Egg Harbor Township for the opportunity to put her talent to work with a group. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Higher Education
Music

Will whistle for work: Orchestra whistles tribute to Philly’s labor history

Temple art gallery has commissioned a UK artist to compose and assemble an orchestra of local whistlers in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

Listen 3:36
Philadelphia singer-songwriter Birdie Busch at her home studio in Germantown. Busch wrote eight original songs inspired by the art of women in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and will perform them Friday night at the museum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Gender
Music
Visual Arts

Women artists celebrated in song at Philly Museum of Art

Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

6 years ago

Equality Labs, an organization of Delit people (
Religion
Social Justice
Visual Arts

Asian Arts Initiative showcases art striving to cast out caste system

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.

6 years ago

Terry Lee Barrett hosted “Caribbean Rhythms” on WRTI FM, from 1987 to 1995. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Archives of radio show illuminate Philly’s love affair with reggae of ‘80s and ‘90s

Recordings of the “Caribbean World Rhythms” radio show bring back the bright, sun-splashed sounds of reggae.

6 years ago

Listen 7:13
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal since 1999 to take pictures of the Baye Fall, a Sufi sect of Islam.
Her images are on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in the exhibit,
International
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Two visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

6 years ago

Listen 2:11
About 2,000 people attended the Snow Jam concert headlined by O.A.R. in the debut concert at the 76ers Fieldhouse in Wilmington last month. (Courtesy of BPG Sports)
Delaware
Music
Performing Arts

At Wilmington’s 76ers Fieldhouse, hoops make way for hoopla of concerts, celebrities

The new Wilmington sports arena for the 76ers G League team drew well for an O.A.R. concert. Rap queen Cardi B will host a party there in April.

6 years ago

Listen 2:16
Akeem Davis and Zuhairah in Arden Theatre Company’s  production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

A gem of a ‘Gem of the Ocean’

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

6 years ago

Six women imagine the hull of a slave ship in
History
Performing Arts
Race & Ethnicity

Philadelphia theater production of ‘Vessels’ explores the spiritual survival tools for women on a slave ship

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.

6 years ago

Listen 2:10
Members of the artists' collective Space 1026 Maximillian Lawrence (left) and John Armstrong, stand in the new space they purchased on North Broad Street, a former hairdresser's shop. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Economy
Visual Arts

In a Philadelphia first, artist collective becomes property owner

Space 1026, being forced out of its current location, becomes the first artist collective in Philadelphia to buy a building.

6 years ago

Radio Times
Kids
Mental Health

Laurie Halse Anderson’s new memoir ‘Shout’

A conversation with YA fiction writer Laurie Halse Anderson on her own sexual assault when she was 13 years old and how to talk to young people about sexual violence.

Air Date: March 6, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:45
Actor Luke Perry poses for a portrait Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 in New York.  (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
Movies
TV

Luke Perry dead at 52 after suffering stroke

A publicist for Luke Perry says the "Riverdale" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has died. He was 52.

6 years ago

Page 167 of 402« First«...165166167168169...»Last »
Arts & Entertainment Community Courts & Law Education Health Lifestyle Money Politics & Policy Science Urban Planning Weather
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Latest News

  • Penn researchers believe new potential gene therapy for glioblastoma brain cancer offers ‘a lot of hope’

    3 hours ago

  • First Amendment battle pits Philadelphia Gas Works against climate advocates in rate hike case

    4 hours ago

  • ‘Put us out of business’: CBD stores decry Delaware’s effort to regulate gummies and other hemp items with low-level THC

    4 hours ago

  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Want a digest of WHYY’s programs, events & stories? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Together we can reach 100% of WHYY’s fiscal year goal

Donate
Learn about WHYY Member benefits
Ways to Donate
WHYY

WHYY provides trustworthy, fact-based, local news and information and world-class entertainment to everyone in our community.

WHYY offers a voice to those not heard, a platform to share everyone’s stories, a foundation to empower early and lifelong learners and a trusted space for unbiased news. Learn more about Social Responsibility at WHYY. It’s how we live.

Contact Us

Philadelphia

215.351.1200
talkback@whyy.org

Delaware

302.516.7506
talkback@whyy.org

Our Programs

  • Albie’s Elevator
  • Art Outside
  • Billy Penn
  • Check, Please! Philly
  • The Connection
  • Delishtory
  • Flicks
  • Fresh Air
  • Good Souls
  • The Infinite Art Hunt
  • Movers & Makers
  • On Stage at Curtis
  • Peak Travel
  • Philadelphia Revealed
  • PlanPhilly
  • The Pulse
  • Schooled
  • The Statue
  • Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist
  • Studio 2
  • Things To Do
  • Voices in the Family
  • WHYY News Climate Desk
  • You Oughta Know
  • Young Creators Studio
  • Young, Unhoused and Unseen
  • Your Democracy

Inside WHYY

  • About
    • Social Responsibility at WHYY
    • Board and Executives
    • Community Advisory Board
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Employment
    • Internships
    • Press Room
    • Meet Our Newsroom
    • WHYY News Style Guide
    • WHYY Productions
    • WHYY Spaces
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Directions
    • Coverage Area
    • Financial Statements
    • WHYY Community Report
    • Supporters
    • Privacy
  • Meet Our Newsroom
  • Employment
  • Lifelong Learning Award
  • N.I.C.E. Initiative
  • Contact Us
  • Sponsorship
  • Directions
  • FCC Public Files
  • FCC Applications

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Sign up for a Newsletter

© MMXXV WHYY

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use for WHYY.org

WHYY is partnered with