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.
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.
Frederick Wiseman gives Harvard's first Norton Lecture on Cinema
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is the first filmmaker to deliver a Norton Lecture.
Hope and despair, harmony and discord: Jonathan Bailey Holland, profiled
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Sketch artist: profile of SNL veteran Colin Jost
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
Nigerian Women Speak Out
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
Harvard classicist Richard Thomas on Bob Dylan
In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
Harvard experts shape PBS Vietnam series
Harvard experts provide access to Vietnamese sources on the war.
The sounds of one of Harvard's earliest a cappella groups, the Dunster Dunces
A look (and listen) back at the Dunster Dunces
by Oset Babür
Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond
Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices.