Arts & Entertainment

For the planned year-long celebration of Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday, the Free Library of P ...

For the past 25 years, the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia quietly has been bringing artists from around the world to work with wood. ...

The First Baptist Church at 17th and Sansom Street has devoted a portion of its real estate exclusively to the making of plays.It’s ...

Remember your first camera and the sense of magic you got capturing the world on film? James Tralie, an eighth grader from Sandy Run Midd ...

The Roots will show their roots. The Grammy-winning hip-hop band that originated in the Philadelphia High School for Creative and ...

The real star of a play in the Northern Liberties may be the quick-change artistry that happens back stage. Watch a video ...

Marianne Lock is hard of hearing. She has a powerful hearing aid, and can read lips, but before Art-Reach she wasn’t able to attend ...

An area artist is turning Marcellus Shale into coffee cups. Jennie Shanker digs shale out of the ground in central Pennsylvania, s ...

The Curtis Institute of Music in Center City has been training the world’s best musicians for 87 years. In 1931, a young piano prod ...

The director of the Fleisher Art Memorial and a South Philly teenager will be at the White House Wednesday as the guests of Michelle Obam ...

Longtime New Jerseyans will no doubt be familiar with the impish creature fabled to periodically terrorize the Garden State. New Jersey- ...

A collection of documents related to the birth of Philadelphia’s transit system has an unusual restriction—researchers wanting to ...

We went to the fright capital of the region, Eastern State Penitentiary’s, “Terror Behind the Walls“ in search ...

In 1947, DC Comics debuted one of the early female superheroes: Black Canary. Her superpower was her ability to scream. Both piercing and ...

Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences have tied the knot. The Academy has changed its name to the Academy of Natur ...