Performing Arts

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

Reese Witherspoon Visits Harvard—and Talks Women, Media, and AI

Reese Witherspoon discusses female-driven content at Harvard Business School. 

by Olivia Farrar

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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”

Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.

by Jennifer Gersten

Harvard experts shape PBS Vietnam series

Harvard experts provide access to Vietnamese sources on the war.

by John S. Rosenberg

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. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"

The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.

by Max Suechting

Alison Carey, on directing the American Revolutions cycle at the OSF

Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Naples Conservatory delights Thomas Kelly

A day at the Naples Conservatory

by Thomas Forrest Kelly

With Friends Like These

The real tragedy underlying Friends from College stems from the indignities of the post-recession economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova