Arts & Entertainment

Part cabaret, part improvisation, part variety show and all smiles, “Making Spirits Bright” is appropriately named. The origi ...

In the New Year, Mummers will have a second parade featuring string bands marching in Manayunk for Mardi Gras. About a dozen or mo ...

Over the years, one item has consistently appeared on restaurant menus and dinner tables during the holidays. (No, it’s not the turkey. ...

Earlier this week, as the members of the Philadelphia Singers were warming up their voices to rehearse a holiday program, board vice pres ...

After eight years of working in near-isolation, the creator of the legendary Magic Garden on South Street in Philadelphia unveiled his ne ...

On Monday, the National Constitution Center will unveil a new exhibition space carved out of its building on Independence Mall in Philade ...

Addiction treatment We are devoting our First Look this week to the issue of addiction. As Delaware and the nation have fought ...

An artist in the Mantua neighborhood of West Philadelphia has blocked the city from seizing his studio through eminent domain. Sev ...

Christmas decorations go up immediately after Thanksgiving, but, for many, the season does not really start until it sounds like Christma ...

Happy holidays, and welcome to this presentation of The Gifts of the Magi, WHYY’s annual holiday radio play.  Written by ...

Steve Solomon is performing his own “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish, I’m Home for the Holidays” at ...

In modern times, we say “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but in 1740 a French woman named Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de ...

Dance/USA Philadelphia, an artist support and advocacy organization, will fold at the end of the year after losing its biggest benefactor ...

An ambitious undertaking called “The Sincerity Project” might be the most insincere thing going on a stage these days – whi ...

Why are “The Supremes” — Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan —  boogeying like that? And wh ...