Arts & Entertainment

Even before the fireworks and concert, there was plenty of Independence Day action in America’s birthplace.

Visitors from all over the country gathered at Independence Hall for the annual Celebration of Freedom ceremony

A broadside printing was made before the official document was signed. For 241 years, it was never seen publicly, until now in Philadelphia.

Tonya Pendleton runs down things to do around Philadelphia for July 4th and through the weekend.

The play, set in West Chester, Pennsylvania, nimbly toggles back and forth in time to show the history in the foreground of the characters’ lives.

The 200 block of Broad Street in Philadelphia is now Patti LaBelle Way, and the legendary soul singer came to the city to receive the honor.

After a sale to a Chinese company fell through, Rider University wants to move Westminster College off its campus of 87 years. A legal challenge mounts.

The pioneering video artist uses water and technology to explore consciousness and afterlife.

The nine-day festival draws more than 100,000 people from across the country.

The father of Andrew Wyeth was the top illustrator of his day, but N.C. yearned to be a “pure artist.” The biggest retrospective of his work in half a century is now open.

In the 1980s, Prince wrote one of the Bangles' biggest hits, "Manic Monday." Now, The Prince Estate has released the demo version of the track.

Dave Bartholomew, the New Orleans trumpeter, songwriter, bandleader, producer and arranger, has died; his son, Don Bartholomew, confirmed the news to NPR. He was 100.

Though it wasn't the first album touted as being for plants, collectors have been on the lookout for copies of Plantasia for decades.

Christopher Durang’s one-act play, produced by the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, brings its own laughs as it dallies with taboos.

This weekend, the Swann Fountain will serve as inspiration as Philadelphia-based artists put on animal sculpture demonstrations for young artists.