Performing Arts
Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.
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.
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.
Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"
The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.
Alison Carey, on directing the American Revolutions cycle at the OSF
Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”