Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s Office of Arts and Culture was severely reduced in the city’s COVID-era budget, but it’s still shining a light on cultural assets.

The classic Dostoevsky novel “Notes from Underground” is retold online as a Black man emerging from decades of self-isolation.

Philly performers find novel ways to present classic holiday shows during the pandemic.

The Wanamaker Organ, still spreading holiday joy at Macy's in Philadelphia, has endured and entertained through the 1918 Spanish Flu and 2020 coronavirus pandemics.

The Penn Med Symphony Orchestra has created a virtual performance of a short piece by Edward Elgar as a Thanksgiving gift.

National Book Award winner James McBride, author of "The Good Lord Bird, joins Marty to talk about his newest novel, "Deacon King Kong."

Artist Jonathan Santoro uses the Wizard of Oz as a jumping-off point to explore the sinister side of suburbia in the street windows of the Galleries at Moore.

The influential indie film festival in Philadelphia saw a need for critical writing about Black, brown, and Indigenous visual culture.

Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours.

On Wednesday, Apple bowed to the backlash, announcing it had teamed up with PBS for ad-free broadcasts of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

Journalist Thomas Ricks discusses his new book "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country."

There was not enough theater in 2020 to hold an awards ceremony, so Theatre Philadelphia will instead recognize its activists.

The Slought Foundation in Philadelphia put out an open call for artwork reflecting the psychological effects of pandemic life.

Dance On Philly, a dance party for music and dance education, hopes to reignite the city’s vote-count disco in the street last week.

“Brick House” by Simone Leigh draws attention to the importance of Black women in art and culture.