Arts & Entertainment

The script to the musical isn't so sterling, and the production tries to make it something it's not. So come for the show's well-written music.

In Philadelphia, there's a very special song that reminds us of what Christmas is really all about.

The piece engaged 80,000 passers-by who stopped specifically to look at the sculpture or ask about it over three months.

Penny Marshall, who became a household name playing Laverne in Laverne & Shirley, died Monday night at her Los Angeles home from complications of diabetes.

The museum will include a permanent exhibit on Harriet Tubman, who spent time in Cape May during the 1850s raising money for helping slaves escape from the South.

New traditions blend with old in Northern Liberties' Parade of Spirits.

Anthony Lawton is the storyteller in this recreation of the tale of transformation.

The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's fantasy brings the book's cartoonish — and nasty — characters alive.

“A Sign of the Times” offers a perfect break from the holiday rush: thoughtful but not overly so, nostalgic but timely … and just plain fun.

A forthcoming Bible museum at Independence Mall will add scriptural perspective to American history.

A landmark artists collective in Philadelphia — Space 1026 — is gearing up to move out of its building of 21 years. This weekend's art auction pulls out the stops.

Bob Mondello, Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon would never agree on a single list of best movies of the year. But here are 15 of the movies we admired and will remember.

He published his dissertation research as a book called Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World.

Radical porcelain: the Museum of the American Revolution will host a workshop to demonstrate the uses of ceramics toward political ends.

Two graduate students, into their work but aloof from themselves