Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

In Philadelphia this weekend, a huge trove of folk art will be auctioned off from the collection of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. The ...

Clean water future Delaware’s water is dirty. Most of it is too dirty to swim in or eat fish from. You will probably fin ...

Here’s how the West was won: with toe-tapping music, old-fashioned bravura, a good deal of mime and plenty of movement. And ...

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What do you leave out? That may be a question for Paula Vogel, the celebrated playwright whose new work opened in a world premiere at Wil ...

On Friday regional business leaders, thinkers, and “makers” will congregate for TEDxPh ...