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.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Classical music composer Lei Liang gives voice to silenced stories

After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

The Dance Complex in Cambridge is poised to grow

A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.

by Nell Porter-Brown

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