Performing Arts

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

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Honors Rose Byrne

The Bridesmaids actress celebrated her 2026 Woman of the Year Award with a roast and a parade.

by Schuyler Velasco , Kate Kaufman

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

Terence Davies captures Emily Dickinson's life and spirit in "A Quiet Passion"

In his film A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies illuminates Emily Dickinson’s daily life and eternal poetry.

by Sophia Nguyen