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.
Jazz artist Kavita Shah's border-crossing compositions
Kavita Shah makes music in many idioms.
Composer Matthew Aucoin finds the next notes of his classical music career
A young composer, finding his next notes
A.R.T.'s apocalyptic musical stars Taylor Mac and Mandy Patinkin
A.R.T.'s new show offers singing and dancing at the end of the world.
Harvard advances theater concentration
An undergraduate concentration in “theater, dance, and media” comes into focus.
Harvard screens rare Irish film, “A Night of Storytelling”
The first Irish “talkie,” long thought lost, comes to light at the Harvard Film Archive.
Schlesinger Library Movie Night is Dark Victory with Bette Davis
The pick for Schlesinger Library Movie Night is Dark Victory
Irish film festival at the Somerville theater
Irish film festival at the Somerville Theater
Conductor Sara Jobin specializes in contemporary opera
Conductor Sara Jobin highlights the intimate stories within grand productions.
Profile of Vijay Iyer
Harvard’s first tenured professor and jazz-artist-in-residence.
Harvard music professors create dynamic music theory diagrams
Two scholars—in jazz, and in German music—team up on a tool that makes musical structure visible.