Peter Crimmins

The new play, based on the 19th-century Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, centers international students studying in Philadelphia.

Tempesta di Mare is presenting a fully orchestrated “America Independent, or The Temple of Minerva” as it has never been done before.

“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.

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.

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

“The First Salute” pulls artifacts from Sint Eustatius to tell the “hidden” story of the colonies’ crucial island allies.

More than 1,000 people created personal Declarations of Independence, now on view at the Free Library in a major semiquincentennial civic art project.

The citywide project asked 45 artists to exhibit new work rooted in craft heritage for America's 250th anniversary.