Arts & Entertainment

PorchFest brings music, art and history to Allentown

Allentown’s Main Street will become a showcase for music, art and local history Saturday, Sept. 12, when the Allentown Village Initiative presents the borough’s first PorchFest. The free event will...

Lawrence historian wins $25K national scholarship

While many parents take their children on vacation trips to the beach or the mountains, Julia Ciccone's parents...

Piano Jam opens Richardson’s Steinway to all

For generations, some of the world’s leading pianists have taken a seat at the Steinway grand piano in...

Art Cart delivers a new kind of soul food to town

It’s a hot summer day and brightly dressed Brook Beatty stands on South Broad Street in downtown Trenton. After...

Laura Benanti brings ‘Nobody Cares’ home

Laura Benanti says she is “blessed to be a chameleon.” Her context is unexpected. She is not referring to being...

All Shook Up

One could blame the wave of jukebox musicals on "Mamma Mia," its cargo of ABBA songs inspiring audiences to sing along in their seats...

Doylestown’s Best Kept Secret

There’s really nothing like a good cry in the dark to expulse any demons who might be poking their pitchforks under your skin. When...

When Physics and Art Collide: the Franklin Institute

As Seth Goldstein tells it, he was doing what engineers, especially retired ones, often do. He was toying around with an idea. "I’d actually...

A Play That Asks, ‘What Happens After?’

Christopher Durang has been writing plays at a maddening rate since he was a little boy (with time off in college to collect himself)....

Anon, Nouveau Shakespeare

Princetonian Marvin Cheiten’s latest play is about a world super power invading a small middle eastern country. Titled "Zenobia," this is not about the...

From Cell Phones to Heartbreak

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Cheryl Wheeler’s new album, "Defying Gravity," reflects the nature of her live shows. She takes her audiences on an emotional...
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