Arts & Entertainment

Pax Ressler and Jackie Soro play both themselves and their American Girl counterparts in “Girl Dolls: The American Musical.”

With “campfires,” surprise sets and new songs, Manayunk’s Sing Us Home Festival brought thousands together for the weekend.

“Quilt Elegies” includes a prototype of Krimes’ fabric-based mural designed with people recently released from prison.

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania traces colonists' fractured, decadeslong shift from loyalty to rebellion.

With the loss of Germantown's Circadium school, a new festival is trying to establish Philly as a hub for contemporary circus.

April 30 to May 3: An emo tribute in Delaware, a Meat Loaf musical in Philly and a Kentucky Derby wine fest in South Jersey lead this weekend’s events.

The festival, the brainchild of Philadelphia’s own Dave Hause, serves as a homecoming for the musician, who grew up in the Roxborough-Manayunk area.

George and Ira Gershwin’s “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” flopped on Broadway in 1933. Opera Philadelphia will revive it for the midterm election season.

“In the Arena” demonstrates how sports exemplify the U.S. Constitution’s Freedom of Assembly.

It took 10 years for the children's museum to raise the money to replace its 19th-century marble floors.

Studio 2 co-host Avi Wolfman-Arent sits down with Eisenberg to hear why bodies deserve more lines in literature and why "fat" is often the best descriptor.

With funding turbulence at the federal and state levels, elected officials are calling for the city to pick up some of the slack.

Linguist Valerie Fridland guides us through the history of accents and why certain ones stick while others disappear, and what they reveal about power, identity and belonging.

It sure seemed like the old days of the Broad Street Bullies for the Flyers.

April 23–26: The Homey Awards in Delaware, a jazz festival in Philly and Florence + The Machine in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.