The Philadelphia Contraption Contest went dormant during the pandemic. It took an experimental theater company to bring it back.

Tonight, we are making things incredibly complicated--because that's what Zach Umperovitch likes to do. He's a Rube Goldberg expert, a Guinness Record Holder, a judge and producer for "Contraption ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...