Arts & Entertainment

The black churches of Coatesville show Philadelphia how it's done in "Gospel at Colonus."

Three Iraqi natives and a Syrian woman have been enlisted as guides to share a modern cultural perspective with visitors to new Middle Eastern galleries at the Penn Museum.

Known as the comic who brought down Bill Cosby, Hannibal Buress makes sure his bits don’t go viral in Philly.

Incessant rain didn’t keep neighbors inside at the 12th annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

Orbiter 3, a collective of playwrights designed to produce seven new plays, did what it set out to do. It will dissolve after it's final production, 'A People.'

From skulls and bones to electroshock therapy equipment and a cycloptic pig — take a peek inside the Oddporium. Delaware's first and only shop for the peculiar and bizarre.

One of Philadelphia's prominent Jewish culture centers, The Gershman Y, will change its mission to focus solely on film.

Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s director David Amado will lead the group in its first ever performance of Gustav Mahler’s “Seventh Symphony,” which fascinated him as a child.

If 90 minutes a week of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' is just not cutting it for you, head to the Gayborhood this weekend to see a homegrown Philly drag competition crown its new king.

Back in the 1800s, 'tenderloin' was a common moniker for a city's vice districts and skid rows. Where was Philly's Tenderloin, and what was it like?

During the installation of Masayuki Koorida’s exhib ...

The Painted Bride, an Old City icon in Philadelphia, plans to sell its building. Philadelphia arts leaders are crying foul.

Spring is quickly edging into summer, and you know what that means: festivals, street fairs, and block parties. Here are three we think you'll love.

Journalist Tom Wolfe died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. In his signature white suit, the best-selling author described himself as "the village information gatherer."

For as long as she can remember, playwright Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg has opposed the death penalty. “Even when I was little, an ...