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

"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

Scott Miller’s New Line Theatre “saves shows from Broadway”

A daring musical theater company turns 25.

by Meredith Redick

Harvard alumni musicians Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang are profiled

The many pursuits of musicians Damon & Naomi

by Lydialyle Gibson

Hoon Lee’s return to Broadway and "Banshee"

An actor’s rule on stage and screen

by Sophia Nguyen