Arts & Entertainment

Emily Acker watched the Weinstein Company collapse, from the inside. She wrote a play based on that dissolution.

The Pink Boots Society helps support women craft brewers. On Saturday in Philadelphia, that support takes the form of the Bold Women and Beer festival.

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

Playwright Kate Tarker offers up the absurdist tale of a shepherd, his wife and Oedipus, the son who left them.

Reggie Wilson, a New York choreographer, will present a series of experimental dances at four historic churches in Philadelphia.

To mark the end of National Poetry Month, Ursula Rucker sat down with WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to discuss her writing.

It's already made an estimated one billion dollars around the world. Well, $1.2 billion, actually.

Regan has been "killing" on the road pretty much nonstop since the 1980s. And he also keeps his act clean — free of profanity or explicit jokes.

Filmmaker John Maggio said he wanted to create something that wasn't focused on solely on views of ambassadors and historians but real people affected by the war.

A series of unknown images by the 1970s radical feminist artist are on view at the Tyler School of Art’s Temple Contemporary gallery.

Seventeen years after the HBO show ‘Def Poetry Jam’ went off the air, co-creator Danny Simmons is reviving the spoken word showcase in Philadelphia.

Raquel Salas Rivera won $50,000 from the Academy of American Poets and will use a portion of to fund a summer poetry festival between Philadelphia and Boston.

The Nat Turner Rebellion recorded the blistering funk-rock-soul album at Philly’s Sigma Sound Studios, but it sat forgotten on a shelf for a half-century.

Marian Anderson performed 80 years ago outside the Lincoln Memorial after she was barred by the Daughters of the American Revolution at Constitution Hall.

Sarah Ruhl wrote the play as a 70th birthday gift for her mother, who portrayed Pan as a teenager in Iowa.