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

Tony Torn stars in "Ubu Sings Ubu" at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater

A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi

by Nell Porter-Brown

A grammar of pain: review of documentary "Of Men and War"

A new film about American veterans and the struggle to tell their stories through trauma therapy

by Jacqueline Feldman

Benjamin Scheuer tells his life story through song in "The Lion"

In his poignant one-man musical, Benjamin Scheuer finds his roar.

by Laura Levis

The Puppet Showplace Theater keeps an ancient art form alive.

Contemporary takes on puppetry in Brookline, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Visualizing Broadway

Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.

by Jonathan Shaw

A long run in The Nutcracker, and the Blackout of '65

Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout

From Harvard to Nashville, Wisewater makes music

A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.

by Sophia Nguyen

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard's WHRB's unusual and ingenious mix of classical, jazz, country, and rock

For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”

by Craig Lambert

A Gay Man Asks A Tough Question

David Thorpe’s new film Do I Sound Gay? de-stigmatizes the “gay voice.”

by Zara Zhang