Arts & Entertainment

This weekend, PBS will premiere “Mercy Street,” a new “period show” that just might take the reins from “Do ...

Opera Philadelphia, the city’s major opera company, has received one of the largest grants in its history to stage a festival next ...

Losing a loved one to violent crime can be nearly unendurable. Such sudden, shocking deaths leave psychic wounds that may never heal. ...

The Prince Theater in Philadelphia is hosting a modern dance company from Canada, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, for a week of performances ...

Every empty building has a story to tell. When it comes to a shuttered North Philadelphia school, it’s a whole neighborhood of stor ...

More than 40 years ago, David Bowie came to Philadelphia to record his album “Young Americans.” As the music world mourns the ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s principle trumpet player has been mentoring a teenager in war-torn Afghanistan over the Internet. Now ...

Next Generation standards Delaware was the seventh state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards. Those sta ...

A Philadelphia history project is at work collecting material from residents of Chinatown for an exhibit about that neighborhood’s ...

A bust made out of bacon. An M&M mosaic of football hall-of-famer and Pennsylvania native Joe Montana. Conshohocken couple Marie Pelt ...

On the eve of the its annual Flower Show, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has chosen its new president, Matt Rader. The PHS ...

Outrageously costumed Mummers have strutted and twirled at Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day parade, a colorful celebratio ...

Last spring, just after winning his one of the lead roles in the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s ...

The criminal charges filed Wednesday against Bill Cosby won’t lead to any changes to a Cosby-funded art exhibit at a Smithsonian mu ...

Los Bomberos de Calle, a traditional Puerto Rican performance troop based in North Philadelphia, is gathering 25 traditional folk masks f ...