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

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.

by Sophia Nguyen

"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

by Sophia Nguyen

Pianist Aristo Sham ’19 on the world stage

Aristo Sham ’19 takes first place at the New York International Piano Competition.

by Aidan Langston

"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. 

by Sophia Nguyen

How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”

Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine

by Sophia Nguyen

Elizabeth Claire Walker, from the Los Angeles Ballet to Harvard and back

A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls

by Maggie Shipstead

Boston's Roxbury International Film Festival, June 22-30

Independent films by and about people of color

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard's theater, dance, and media concentration looks to expand

A concentration “400 years in the making,” and two semesters old

by Sophia Nguyen

Hopkinson Smith’s new recordings of Bach aim for “perfect union”

A lutenist pursues what he calls his “lifelong task.”

by Lara Pellegrinelli

The Undergraduate looks at 1969 and Reclaim HLS

The Undergraduate looks at 1969 and Reclaim HLS

by Jenny Gathright