Arts & Entertainment

Several years ago, theater producer Vy Higginsen was casting for a new musical, “Mama, I Want to Sing,” and had to find singe ...

A new, very large sculpture has just risen along Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River. “Big Bling ” is a 40-foot abstract pi ...

Comedian Chris Gethard is on a career upswing: He’s been featured on the national radio shows “This American Life” and ...

On Tuesday, a new state historic marker was unveiled in Philadelphia, at 23rd and Girard Avenue, outside the former home of James B. Davi ...

On Monday evening, members of the Philadelphia Chinese and Mexican communities got together to have dinner with some of the city’s ...

One glib maxim defines the entirety of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”: Life sucks, then you die. Chekhov loads his maste ...

Guests: Janet Benton, David Titley Local writer JANET BENTON’s ...

On Saturday, homeowners in West Philadelphia host Porchfest, where 140 music acts are scheduled to perform free mini-concerts on 70 porch ...

Last Thursday, about a dozen people in a community garden in the South Kensington section of Philadelphia raised a stud wall into place, ...

The Garcia and Alives families say they put their Spider-Man and Pikachu costumes together at the last minute, but they blend right in. ...

‘Tis the season to keep an eye out for a good summer read. And behind every good book is an author who’s poured heart ...

Every ten years, the bronze sculpture of William Penn on top of Philadelphia’s City Hall must be cleaned and refinished. For the ne ...

Nancy Butler has been making jewelry since childhood, with the help of two stray cats she turned her hobby into a business.

The terrific new “How to Use a Knife” comes at you like a play on speed, or maybe a play with no speed limit. What’s mo ...

The colorful historical figure Hugh O’Neill, the chief of an Irish clan as well as the British Earl of Tyrone, would swing both way ...