Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

Stolen Art Time is running out to catch a unique art exhibit of stolen Italian artifacts making its US debut, right here in Dela ...

In 1967, the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” was knocked out of the No.1 spot on the charts by a slow, plaintive ballad ...

For an American playwright, John Patrick Shanley writes one heck of an Irish play. “Outside Mullingar,” in a radiant producti ...

Ten years ago, the annual Christmas parade in West Chester, Pennsylvania, was limp, at best. “I saw the Christmas tree uptow ...

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This week the National Museum of American Jewish History, on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, will be re-interpreted by a drag queen. ...

Something rather strange happens when looking at Paul Strand’s photographs — an odd feeling of having seen them before. And, ...

WHYY’s The Pulse celebrates its first birthday this week, in a celebration topped off by a live broadcast on Thursday. On Frida ...

At 40,000 square feet over four floors, the Pearl Art and Craft supplies store on South Street was one of the largest in Philadelphia. Af ...