Arts & Entertainment

The jazz legend and barrier breaker was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Ala.

Philly’s 150-year-old Chinatown concert venue will close at the end of the month.

Temple art gallery has commissioned a UK artist to compose and assemble an orchestra of local whistlers in Philadelphia.

Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.

Recordings of the “Caribbean World Rhythms” radio show bring back the bright, sun-splashed sounds of reggae.

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

The new Wilmington sports arena for the 76ers G League team drew well for an O.A.R. concert. Rap queen Cardi B will host a party there in April.

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.

Space 1026, being forced out of its current location, becomes the first artist collective in Philadelphia to buy a building.

A conversation with YA fiction writer Laurie Halse Anderson on her own sexual assault when she was 13 years old and how to talk to young people about sexual violence.

A publicist for Luke Perry says the "Riverdale" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has died. He was 52.

A life-sized Middle Eastern sailboat, artifacts, and lively demonstrations by Muslim artists are featured in the Please Touch Museum’s latest exhibition: America to Zanzibar.

Drexel University has proposed taking over the 130,000-piece collection of the Philadelphia History Museum. Will the public get to see it? And why does Drexel want it?