Arts & Entertainment

The small theater company in West Philadelphia has altered Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” by making both Romeo and Ju ...

A high school newspaper in Bucks County has vowed not to print the word “Redskins,” the long-cherished nickname for all of th ...

This special edition of First features an in depth interview with University President Patrick Harker. He discusses a renewed focus on s ...

Thomas Edison State College in Trenton has just received an enormous painting by N.C. Wyeth. The painting is regarded as one of  the ...

Buried on Page 14 of “The Yellow Birds,” author Ke ...

John is having the quandary of his young-adult life. He’s fallen in love unexpectedly with a divorced woman who also loves him and ...

When we first see blues singer Bessie Smith descend the stairs of an after-hours joint in the show “The Devil’s Music,” ...

Port impact There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about building up the manufacturing and the blue collar work base ...

“Godzilla has a brain about this size,” said a scientist, or someone who plays one in the movies, while holding up something ...

Thaddeus Stevens entered the strata of popular culture when he appeared as a character in the Steven Spielberg film, “Lincoln,̶ ...

Every now and then, a grandma will tell you how great it is to have grandkids – they come, they share the love, and after a while their ...

A couple weeks ago, a new museum opened on Boston Street in the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. This weekend, the same muse ...

Dino Vazquez was known in his North Philadelphia neighborhood for his street art until the day the family of Cesar Vera asked him to make ...

First, the numbers. In this, its 22nd year, the Philadelphia Film Festival (October 17–27), boasts 28 shorts and 96 feat ...

Walking the gamut of sculptural figures in George Segal’s enormously long studio in South Brunswick, New Jersey, is a little like w ...