Arts & Entertainment

The war hero Achilles and his friend, Petroclus, consider their love and interdependence.

Guests: David Bianculli, Douglas Howard, Robert Thompson There’s so many different reasons a television show co ...

More than 46 years after it was shot, the Aretha Franklin concert film "Amazing Grace" will finally be released.

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, comics illustrate the fight for equality.

Rina Banerjee's first major retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is called "Make Me a Summary of the World."

The annual awards for professional theater in metropolitan Philadelphia draw a crowd of about 700 to celebrate.

Can old and new neighborhood cultures survive together?

Jazz Philadelphia, a new support organization for jazz in the city, launches with a weekend conference on the art and business of music.

Sheridan's witty 1775 play about love and rivalry becomes a musical romp.

I knew Ntozake Shange many years ago. Her recent passing at age 70 made me reach back to remember those times. It’s no exaggeration ...

A post-apocalyptic vision of a world without electricity uses "The Simpsons" as a cultural icon that draws people together.

CraftNOW, a series of events built around the Philadelphia Craft Show, presents artists as activists.

A theatrical lecture at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia demonstrates the scientific roots of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."

People live by the rhythm of the waves, at the end of an era of oystering.

The Philadelphia tradition is no more.