Arts & Entertainment

A new gymnasium is opening in Fishtown without a treadmill or dumbbell in sight. Instead, artists will be working out arc welders, table ...

Levittown, Pa., one of the first planned suburbs, has turned 60 years old. Levittown, which spreads over four townships in Bucks C ...

“A roll of the die that changes everything, for everyone, for ever after. This is my moment. ...

A 23-foot-high stone wall is the first clue the Michener Museum lives in what used to be a prison. The entrance is an immense solid archw ...

Philadelphia is approaching its limit of Impressionist art. Just after the Barnes Foundation opened its massive collection of Impr ...

This weekend begins a festival for extremely low-budget theater. The third “SoLow Festival” features 16 performances t ...

Statistically, if you are African-American, you are most likely a Democrat. That presumption is challenged by the new documentary ...

One of Philadelphia’s most prominent philanthropists will have his picture painted this week by one of the country’s most pro ...

Starting Wednesday, Philadelphia will host a national conference of opera companies. One of the issues to be discussed will be dev ...

To the west is Independence Hall and Carpenter’s Hall, where the Continental Congress met for the first time. To the north is Ben F ...

In rare celebration by a normally quiet religion, followers of Baha’i will gather at Temple University Saturday to remember the 100 ...

From Center City to the Jersey Shore, we’ve got your weekend covered. WHYY’s Arts Calendar curator Robin Bloom sorts through ...

At first it seems like a Tom Waits song — a Polish piano tuner sits in the park, tinkering with an old upright. “From a mu ...

“Peter Nero and the Philly Pops” might lose its namesake. The Pops’ parent company, Encore Series, Inc., has bee ...

For years, neon signs have been associated with cheap beer and cheap motels. They were Nick Mancuso’s bread and butter. Manc ...