Peter Crimmins

Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese ambassador during WWII, helped thousands of Jews to flee German-occupied Europe. His son and the descendants of those he saved met in Philadelphia.

Over 10 years, the Fabulous Philadelphians have built strong cultural ties with China. With trade diplomacy hitting a low note, will that good will dissipate?

The $4.8 million sale of the Painted Bride, Philadelphia’s longtime alternative arts venue, will fund the organization’s transformation. The sale must be approved in court.

Historic prison museum documents gay life behind the walls in the 1800s. During the prison's 142 years, at least 500 inmates were incarcerated for the crime of sodomy.

Philadelphia residents disagree on the best way to control the hundreds of thousands of cats freely roaming the city. The quandary involves

Emily Acker watched the Weinstein Company collapse, from the inside. She wrote a play based on that dissolution.

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

Reggie Wilson, a New York choreographer, will present a series of experimental dances at four historic churches in Philadelphia.

A series of unknown images by the 1970s radical feminist artist are on view at the Tyler School of Art’s Temple Contemporary gallery.

Seventeen years after the HBO show ‘Def Poetry Jam’ went off the air, co-creator Danny Simmons is reviving the spoken word showcase in Philadelphia.

Raquel Salas Rivera won $50,000 from the Academy of American Poets and will use a portion of to fund a summer poetry festival between Philadelphia and Boston.

The Nat Turner Rebellion recorded the blistering funk-rock-soul album at Philly’s Sigma Sound Studios, but it sat forgotten on a shelf for a half-century.