Arts & Entertainment

Playwright Michael Hollinger is now rolling out two plays — a comedy, and a drama — and holding rehearsals for each in the same building.

At Tuesday's dedication, Mayor Jim Kenney commended the work for shining a light on the importance of trauma-informed care.

Yvonne Staples, whose voice and business acumen powered the success of her family's Staples Singers gospel group, has died at age 80.

On Monday night’s episode of the singing competition show, Johnson, 22, beat contestant Sharane Calister in the “knock out” rounds to advance in the competition.

As the Facebook scandal over Cambridge Analytica's misuse of the personal data of millions of users continues to unfold, Facebook is suspending another data analytics firm ove

Comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary in 2017 called The Problem With Apu.

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ended its Chuck Close exhibit Sunday with a workshop on the art of protest.

The character we see on stage is Mary Magdalene. And more.

The film, screening April 14, will be a featured selection of this year’s Princeton Environmental Film Festival.

The 2004 movie was so influential that screenwriter Tina Fey and producer Lorne Michaels figured, why not a musical?

Grin and beer it: On April 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt legalized the sale and consumption of beer in the U.S. after 13 years of Prohibition.

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klang will have performances on Saturday and Sunday at FringeArts.

The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia and will perform at the International House this Sunday.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will premiere a new choral work based on sounds and poems crowdsourced from area residents.

Philadelphia kicked off April’s Jazz Appreciation Month by naming native son Jamaaladeen Tacuma as this year’s recipient of the Benny Golson Award.