Arts & Entertainment

Dunya Mikhail is generally known as a war poet. The native of Baghdad came of age during the Iran-Iraq war, one of the longest conflicts ...

The Wilma Theater on the Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia is now staging Part Two of the landmark play, “Angels in America: A Gay ...

Thirty-two musicians from 21 countries have converged in the United States for a road trip, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. ...

A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ordered that a collection of historic railroad cars in Pemberton, New Jersey, must be removed. ...

One hundred and forty years ago, Frank Furness designed what is now the Historic Landmark Building for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fi ...

The city of Philadelphia is in a race against other major cities like Boston and Chicago to achieve the most “green” building ...

There’s something funny going on in America: There will be a presidential election in 5 1/2 weeks. A local theater company, ...

Murray Dessner, one of Philadelphia’s beloved artists, died last Saturday. Dessner was a longtime teacher at the Pennsylvani ...

The winners of the annual Barrymore Awards were announced Tuesday, with neither ceremony nor fanfare. Mary Martello, an actress wh ...

Artist Murray Dessner — Desi to some — ...

Philadelphia has one of the strongest arts and culture economies in the nation, according to a new study by the Greater Philadelphia Cult ...

Many museums have created programs to make their exhibitions accessible to people in wheelchairs or the blind. The Berman Museum of Art a ...

“We haven’t changed in 100 years,” said Aurora Deshauteurs, curator of prints at the Free Library of Philadelphia. R ...

In 2009, it was supposed to be closed one year, for a $1.5 million renovation. Three years and $5.7 million later, the Philadelphia Histo ...

The 100th anniversary of the birth of composer John Cage gives musicians a chance to dust off their scores of “Aria” and R ...