In anticipation of the return of “Downton Abbey” and “Martha Bakes Season 4” in January, PBS invited Martha Stewart and her team to create a “Gingerbread Abbey.” She did just that, and the result is deliciously stunning. FYI, it took …

‘Tis the season to spread holiday cheer with NYC’s festive department store window displays! This Big Apple tradition celebrates the best about December – glamor, humor, sentiment and of course, holiday magic. See how Christmas is celebrated across the solar …

Manners can make or break a dinner guest at Downton Abbey. Think you can hold your own? Take our etiquette quiz, and remember — the Dowager Countess is watching.

Although Manhattan is a bit too small for a sprawling estate like Downton Abbey, there was certainly no shortage of urban glamor during the Gilded Age. Wealthy industrialists like the Vanderbilts, Astors and Rockefellers engaged each other in costly games …

STOP THE PRESSES! Forget about any other Downton news going on this week because, hello, Sexiest Man Alive in the house… Ho, Ho, Holy Cow!: For months there have been rumors that George Clooney was going to make a guest …

I hope you all had a wondrous Thanksgiving thinking about all the things you have to be thankful for – and I hope that one of the things on your list is all the fantastic programming PBS brings into our …

ABOUT THE PLAY Looking at Christmas begins with the chance encounter of two down-and-out New Yorkers in front of a department store window display. As they strike up a conversation, it doesn’t take long for them to realize that they, …

ABOUT THE PLAY An Iliad is a modern re-working of Homer’s epic poem by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare. This adaptation takes a minimalist direction, with only two actors — Tony-winners Denis O’Hare and Stephen Spinella — alternating as a …

OK, Downtonians, t-minus 7 weeks and counting till the January 4 premiere and the excitement continues to build! Last weekend I was grounded, stuck in my apartment with a bad cold. So I thought, what a great excuse to pull …

The advent of digital distribution has blown the doors off the traditional discovery process for singers and songwriters. In the spirit of the PBS Arts documentary, Hitmakers, we spoke to a handful of people from the music industry in the New York area about how the internet has changed their experience and how they’ve managed to make it work for them.