Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphians figured in the two major Tony Awards for excellence on Broadway, presented at Radio City Music Hall in a national broadcas ...

Caustic and funny in equal parts, Taylor Mac’s “Hir” doesn’t bend gender as much as stab it to death with blunt b ...

The family of Adam West, whose straight-faced portrayal of Batman in a 1960s TV series lifted the tight-clad Caped Crusader into the nati ...

On Sunday, a music composer premiered a new choral work based on trash blowing through Philadelphia neighborhoods. Josh Stamper is ...

Which person from history would you like to share a meal and good conversation with? That question sets Laura Bethmann to daydream ...

Have you been curating an impressive queue of books you’d like to read over the summer months? As you line up thrillers, tra ...

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, ...