Arts & Entertainment

Disney’s movie “Maleficent” is an alternative telling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, starring Angelina Jolie’ ...

In Tennessee Williams’ vision, his play “Stairs to the Roof” is about an idealist who fights the industrialized world. ...

More than two years later, Hurricane Sandy is still causing damage at the Jersey Shore. The Surflight Theatre on Long Beach Island ...

Last week, Paul Needham got a call at 8:30 p.m., from the BBC. It was 1:30 a.m. London time, and a late-night radio show wanted to talk w ...

In a small, bare playing space with the audience on three sides, Curio Theatre Company delivers a sizzling “Othello.” Th ...

The show features photojournalism, urban planning maps, film loops, and art photography to show how all these forms of image-making contr ...

Playwrights fool with history all the time. — Shakespeare made a career of it. Normally, they get the basics — the found ...

Recipe for success In 2013, a study examined how many Delaware inmates return to prison after being released, the numbers weren& ...

All of a sudden Gordon Hirabayashi wasn’t allowed to study with his classmates at the University of Washington library at night. He ...

The Civil War novel Cold Mountain won the National Book Award in 1997, and spawned an Oscar-winning film in 2003.  Next yea ...

Could a spade and garden trowel be tools of revolution? “Gardening is a surprisingly political act,” observes Anna Mar ...

It took designer Alison Roberts about a month to construct the enormous fat-suit costume for Charlie, the grotesque, wheezing 600-po ...

Photographer Judy Gelles was volunteering in a reading class at a fourth grade in a Philadelphia school when she realized that her studen ...

Sometimes, less isn’t just more – it’s way, way more. From the get-go, Theatre Horizon co-founder Matthew Decker wanted to ...

With “Mr. West,” poet Sarah Blake attempts to write an unauthorized biography of Kanye West, in verse. As a work of li ...