Performing Arts

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

Tina Fey and Robert Carlock Talk Collaboration, Joke-Building at Harvard

The duo behind 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt shared insights as part of the Learning from Performers series.

by Schuyler Velasco

Excavating 1968

The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard American Repertory Theater Moving to Allston

A $100-million gift catalyzes a surprising theater relocation.

by John S. Rosenberg

Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open

An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection” 

by Jonathan Shaw , Marina N. Bolotnikova

Michele Forman, film professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham: a profile

Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.

by Shane Brodie

“Veep” showrunner David Mandel: a profile

Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.

by S.I. Rosenbaum

Harvard music department free concerts

Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department

by Nell Porter-Brown

ArtWeek 2019

ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard renames art film department

Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film

by John S. Rosenberg

Playwright Bess Wohl: a profile

Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Cellist Laurence Lesser is profiled

A cellist and conservatory teacher who has never stopped learning

by Nell Porter-Brown