Performing Arts

Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.

A man sitting at a wooden table in a formal setting with portraits on the wall.

Cambridge Once Fought Harvard’s DNA Research. Now There’s a Play About It.

A theatrical reenactment explores a 1976 clash between science and democracy.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Gifts for the arts

Holiday gifts that support the arts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Red graphic which reads At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

A selection of our stories on musicians, composers, conductors, music scholars, and more 

Headshot portraits of: Roberto Gonzales, Peggy Koenig, Michelle Rodriguez, Julio Reyes Copello, Sergio Trujillo

Immigrant Stories, in Song

Sociologist Roberto Gonzales’s research is becoming a musical.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Bill Keenan and Trevor Gretzky

Bill Keenan ’09 Releases Hockey Movie

Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen. 

by Gary Santaniello

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Adriana Colón, a casually dressed, smiling young woman with curly brown hair, sits in a doorway.

Profile of voiceover actor Adriana Colón

Adriana Colón forges aural connections.

by Matteo Wong

At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway

At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway

Harvardians take to the stage.

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

A professor sits at a computer whose screen is shooting out a beam of light filled with all sorts of animals and musical instruments

Music theorist Alexander Rehding profiled by Jacob Sweet

A professor’s interstellar reach

by Jacob Sweet

The cast of "The Hot Wing King"

Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life

Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life

by Stuart Miller