Arts & Entertainment

War may be hell, but in theater it can be pretty fun. “We made a lot of sounds. We looked really angry and physical,” ...

Sylvester Stallone’s fictional character Rocky is once again fighting in the ring, this time in a musical that’s settled onto ...

Two filmmakers are showing Philadelphia new ways to make documentaries, by taking them to the stage in a hybrid of music performance, the ...

Power struggle Hailed as a cutting-edge technology, the proposed stand-alone Newark data center on UD’s STAR campus has be ...

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts wants to remind you that, even after a hard winter -— spring really has arrived. The Acade ...

The Philadelphia Art Commission has given preliminary approval to the design plans for the future Museum of the American Revolution in Ph ...

In 1860, two men made a friendly wager over whether Abraham Lincoln would win the upcoming presidential election.  The result was a ...

A new eatery opening in Center City in Philadelphia will have an unusual business model. The founders are creating the business as ...

There are heroes in Philadelphia’s City Hall. They fight crime, protect the poor, and channel the spirits of Egyptian gods. ...

At the invitation of Eastern State Penitentiary, artist Cindy Stockton-Moore painted ink portraits of fifty victims. The old Easte ...

Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts podcast. This time, Jarret Beaudoin is studying abroad i ...

Two Philadelphia theaters are bringing back an old tradition that has more or less disappeared in professional regional theater: the comp ...

For perhaps 10 minutes, an actress named Ellie Mooney gets, and grabs, her place in the spotlight. In a remarkable explosion of ve ...

There might be a Bigfoot in South Jersey. The cable TV show “Chasing Bigfoot,” on the Animal Planet channel, recently ...

Where is Anton Chekhov when you need him? The great 19th-century Russian playwright is probably tucked soundly into some celestial ...