Arts & Entertainment

Today, William Shakespeare would have been 450 years old. Sort of. The actual date of Shakespeare’s birth is not known for c ...

The endearing little show called “Midsummer,” in a smartly done production by Inis Nua Theatre Company, is told much like a s ...

Landscape of the Mind We start our Experience tour with George Martz. He spent 20 years as an art teacher at the Tower H ...

Environmental journalist Dan Fagin’s 2013 book “ ...

With this year’s overlapping of Passover and Holy Week, many area residents are sharing a period of contemplation and somber reflec ...

Next season’s production lineups are floating in like spring breezes. The area’s 50-plus professional stage companies – the ...

Over the past few years there’s been a full-on renaissance when it comes to Philadelphia’s pizza scene. We did some digg ...

During the Wednesday lunch rush at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, shoppers were surprised by a sudden onslaught of saxophon ...

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words Native American? Is it old movies? Tonto? Protests? Drumming ...

At a current intallation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, two guys will be standing on these bales of shredded metal ...

This weekend, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will open an exhibition of dioramas, revealing how dioramas are made. ...

First Look: Brown vs. Board plus 60 The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. Board of Education came out in May 1954. A ...

Just after the Civil War, all-black baseball teams began springing up. Philadelphia’s team was called the Pythians, and it was led ...

Walt Whitman’s iconic 1855 poem “Song of Myself” has stood the test of time and is now regarded as one of the most accl ...

The legacy of slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate in Virginia is the focus of an exhibition now on view at the National ...