Arts & Entertainment

Schools across Philadelphia are chronically underfunded when it comes to the arts. Several have no art educators at all – and those ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Pennsylvania native John Updike died today of lung cancer. Updike, who grew up near Reading, is known h ...

By: Tom MacDonald Four of the original members of the Grateful Dead are going on tour. Tickets go on sale this morning and WHYY ...

Philadelphia’s mural arts program started working in city prisons a decade ago after a heavy blow in city budget cuts. But some of ...

Independence National Historical Park is going to get the money it needs for construction of the President’s House Museum on Indepe ...

Kenny Gamble, who along with Leon Huff saturated the 1970s with positive social themes through their signature “Sound of Philadelph ...

The American realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, passed away earlier this morning after a brief illness. From WHYY’s Arts and Culture De ...

The 2009 One Book, One Philadelphia program kicks off today. The Mayor’s office and Free Library of Philadelphia joint project prom ...

Today a former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist returns to the city of Brotherly Love to kick off the city’s seventh “One Book ...

This month marks the 200th birthday of legendary author Edgar Allan Poe. Scholars from Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore square off toda ...

Sports fans are gearing up for Sunday’s Eagles matchup against the Cardinals for the NFC crown and a trip to the Super Bowl. One ex ...

This year’s budget crisis led Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter to make some unpopular decisions. One of those affected the 20,000 ...

Arden Theater Company has become a well respected presence in the Philadelphia arts community over its 20-year history. Tonight, My Name ...

By: Brenda Jorett WHYY’s Brenda Jorett talks to Inquirer columnist Jim Salisbury who has been covering the 50-game suspensio ...

Leaders of cultural organizations in Philadelphia are concerned about how the city will make future appropriations. The Philadlephia Orch ...