Arts & Entertainment

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.

While the museum is undergoing extensive renovations to its galleries, it is reconsidering its works by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Cassatt.

Basset hounds were honored for their long ears, creative costumes and athletic prowess. The annual festivities help support the work of the Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue.

The abrupt directive on Friday followed a breakdown in talks over proposed changes to the agreement that has guided the basic business relationship between writers and agents.

David Peterson won a contest to create a fictional language for the show called Dothraki.

The superhero exhibit traces 80 years of comics and movies. Visitors can also learn about the process of making comics, including drawing, inking, coloring, and layout.

This weekend, a church in West Philadelphia will host performances of music composed by experimental sound artist Maryanne Amacher.

A Philadelphia artist takes cues from Gillian Welch and folk ballads to paint historic repetition.

Philly rapper Tierra Whack's reputation as a surrealist and experimenter was sealed last year with the release of Whack World, her masterful debut.

Poet Richard Blanco describes himself as being "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, imported to the USA" and his poems, focusing largely on national identity, reflect this.

A pair of historians are hunting for artifacts for an archive of Philadelphia’s jazz history. They’re holding a scanning party to digitize bits of music history.

Flamenco dancer, choreographer Elba Hevia y Vaca, a Bolivian immigrant, previews a new work in Philadelphia about womanhood and the culture of Flamenco.

Afghanistan and Omaha are the settings for an alternately funny and sad drama about the meaning of struggle.