For a while, she was among the most powerful people in the Manhattan food world. But when that world began to change she tried to take the magazine with it, and management balked. Reichl is a born storyteller, best when she has fully developed characters living and eating well.

Penn professor Richard Vague gives us a tour of two centuries of economic crises -- and he finds over-borrowing at the heart of each one.

With two excellent, disciplined leads in Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon, and excellent direction by Arin Arbus, this rich production immerses us deeply in this sometimes grim, romantic play.

In this nutty, "meta" parody of a farce, the Hedgerow updates a classic comedy of love and mistaken identities. If the characters are sometimes taken too much for laughs alone, it's a comic, enjoyable evening poking fun at social pretense and love's pratfalls.

Patrons will have an easier path to their seats by late fall.

The spectacular art-glass biennial in Millville, N.J., calls for a field trip.

How do you move a 13-ton Sphinx? Very carefully.

Google’s blurring algorithm is turning some portraits into abstract art.

The show, which melds acrobatics and skating, comes to the Wells Fargo Center June 20-23.

The museum is moving its red-granite sphinx for the first time in 93 years.

Authorities say the wife of the artist Peter Max died in an apparent suicide amid a family fight over her husband's work.

Mistaken identity, madcap libidos, bent genders, pratfalls, lewd costumes -- this rendition of Richard Bean's 2011 farce goes at it full force. Some of the Brit humor is lost in translation, but winning performances by Philly comic treasure Sean Close and others make it a good night's...

“As you can imagine,” the weary Isaacs says, “it was a very happy room to be in.”