Arts & Entertainment

This weekend, the Pennsylvania Ballet will opens its 45th production of the annual Christmas favorite, “The Nutcracker,” at t ...

Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from a First Person Arts story slam. In this edition, Sean Carney, who was recently name ...

The Philadelphia Arts Commission has approved a plan for a statue memorializing boxer Joe Frazier, which will stand near the sports compl ...

The head of the Barnes Foundation, Derek Gillman, will step down as executive director at the end of the year, to become part of the facu ...

The coming Museum of the American Revolution has not yet broken ground at Third and Chestnut streets in Old City — construction is ...

A small fashion design firm in Center City, which has been one of the shining examples of socially  and environmentally sustainable ...

A forgotten, underground swimming pool in Philadelphia is vying to be the city’s next performance venue. The Kelly Pools, bu ...

For the only time in thousands of years, the first day of Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving Day. This will not happen again in your lifetime ...

This weekend a Jewish humor writer will make his playwriting debut with a holiday farce based on the biblical nativity story. Josh ...

A small film by a New Hope musician, about living a creative life with Tourette’s syndrome, had won an award at the Bucks County Fi ...

When Sophie Tucker was 25 and just becoming a star, she reportedly brought down the house during a show called ...

Eastside rising As the city of Wilmington meets and surpasses a record for shootings, city leaders continue their efforts to cha ...

This weekend, one of Philadelphia’s most prominent new music ensembles will perform the ...

Since the Barnes Foundation moved its galleries out of Lower Merion to the Parkway in downtown Philadelphia, the Woodmere Art Museum sees ...

For more than 20 years, an anonymous person has been busily sinking into the streets of Philadelphia a riddle about resurrecting the dead ...