Arts & Entertainment

The Walnut Street Theatre seems a natural place to see Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which premiered ...

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

It has been all hands on deck as Philadelphia wrestles with a worsening opioid drug crisis, one that has caused ...

A Philadelphia playwright has won a national award for emerging writers. James Ijames, known as an actor, director, and writer in ...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, donors and institutions are planning a yearlong series of public art ...

The forecast for this weekend will be great for gardening: warm, and maybe a little wet. Volunteers will be out in force at West P ...

Next month, the new Museum of the American Revolution will open in Philadelphia, with the help of Joe Biden, Cokie Roberts, and “Ha ...

A longtime trailblazer of Philadelphia theater has written her first play. Blanka Zizka co-founded the Wilma Theater more than 30 ...

There is much to be learned from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” written in 1949, which has suddenly jumped again ...

On Sunday afternoon, a pioneer of performance poetry will return to Philadelphia for a rare appearance. Marty Watt of Philadelphia ...

This weekend, a Philadelphia performance troupe will dance to NPR. A dancers will perform a choreographed work to a soundtrack of ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has become the subject of a new artwork at another museum. The Fabric Workshop and Museum commissio ...

For a science writer who never sleeps, New York City seemed to be the perfect place to call home. After grieving the death of his partner ...

The debates America is having right now about President Trump’s proposed immigration ban can be traced back at least 100 years, accordi ...

It seems like every year the Philadelphia Flower Show suffers some kind of weather event. But the show goes on, even as the city’s ...