Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

Retooling Habitat for Humanity Many of you know about Habitat for Humanity and its mission to put those in need, in quality home ...

Accompanying Howard Shapiro’s review, we also present the reviews of three audience members who attended Wednesday’s ope ...

David Strathairn and Mary McDonnell have co-starred in films like “Passion Fish,” “Matewan” and “Sneakers.& ...

The award for best classical instrumental album at last night’s Grammy ceremonies went to a guitarist at the Curtis Institute of Mu ...

Arts organizations in Philadelphia need to know how to grow. They also need to know how to die, according to a new study. O ...