Arts & Entertainment
Back in Session Schools are back in session across our region. In Delaware there are many hot-button education iss ...
Air Date: September 10, 2015
Building housing 100 artists closed in Philadelphia over fire code violations
One of Philadelphia’s largest artist studio buildings, 915 Spring Garden, has been shut down due to fire code violations. Th ...
9 years ago
Philadelphia artist reimagines ‘Alice’ as cherished story marks 150th year [photos]
The celebrated author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, published the story of ...
9 years ago
ListenA funny thing happened on the way to the opera: a cabaret about Andy Warhol [photos]
This season, Opera Philadelphia transports audiences to exotic locations; the Baroque Paris salon of La Traviata, the Blue Ridge Mountai ...
9 years ago
Underground Railroad Game Raw, revealing, funny and poignant – “Underground Railroad Game” is hands-down the best ...
9 years ago
Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’
In his loopy take on Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece “A Doll’s House,” Norwegian playwright/director/choreographer Jo ...
9 years ago
Joe Hill, songwriter for union crowds remembered in South Philly
One hundred years ago in November, labor organizer and songwriter Joe Hill was executed by firing squad in a Salt Lake City prison for a ...
9 years ago
Fringe reviews: ‘The Captive’ and ‘After the Rehearsal/Persona’
The Captive I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you – or I may have been in 1926, when Edouard Bordet’s “La Prision ...
9 years ago
The Pope’s Visit Pope Francis is headed to the United States in a couple weeks. You may think his visit is just ...
Air Date: September 4, 2015
Behind the scenes with FringeArts’ Underground Railroad Game
Performers in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival have practiced their craft long and hard to make what they do on stage seem ...
9 years ago
Legal battle is joined over African sculpture of welded weapons
A piece of art shipped to Philadelphia from Africa is stuck in customs because of its unusual material. The sculpture is made entirely fr ...
9 years ago
ListenArt school founded by world-famous Philly portrait artist will live on despite his passing
One of Philadelphia’s most prominent artists passed away last week. Nelson Shanks, a highly sought-after portrait painter, was 77 w ...
9 years ago
ListenNelson Shanks, painter of presidents and royalty, dies at 77
Nelson Shanks, renowned for his portraits of prominent figures ranging from presidents to royalty, has died. He was 77. Shanks die ...
9 years ago
‘A Few Thousand Upgrades Later’ revisits 20-year-old tech predictions
Could anyone in 1995 have known how today’s technologies would alter human interaction? That question is at the heart of ...
9 years ago
This week, the story of a long-forgotten corner of the Delaware State Hospital is getting some recognition. Learn who the graves belong t ...
Air Date: August 28, 2015