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.
“Presenting Jane," and a youthful summer for the New York School
A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.
Anna Deavere Smith welcomes Harvard to a "lecture-performance" on hospitality
In her “lecture-performance,” playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith practiced and preached “Radical Hospitality.”
Animator Tim Reckart and the art of stop-motion acting
The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions
D.J. and experimental composer Jace Clayton discusses his new book, Uproot.
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
Harvardians awarded National Humanities Medals and National Book nominations
Last week, three Harvard affiliates were awarded the National Humanities Medal and eight were long-listed for the National Book Awards.
"The biggest mystery": Nicholas Britell, on scoring "Big Short," "Seventh Fire"
A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave
Pianist Aristo Sham ’19 on the world stage
Aristo Sham ’19 takes first place at the New York International Piano Competition.
"The Seventh Fire," by Harvard alum Jack Riccobono, tracks two Ojibwe gang membe
The Seventh Fire, executive produced by Terrence Malick ’65 and Natalie Portman ’03, sheds light on gang life among Native Americans.
How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
Elizabeth Claire Walker, from the Los Angeles Ballet to Harvard and back
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls