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

Harvard Undergraduate theater from a participant's perspective

An insider’s take on a major extracurricular interest

by Olivia Munk

Kuchipudi dancer Shantala Shivalingappa performs at Boston's ICA

Dancer Shantala Shivalingappa embodies Hindu gods at Boston’s ICA.

Harvard to develop undergraduate concentration in theater, dance, and media

Harvard College plans a theater, dance, and media concentration.

Filmmakers seek visual material from the early days of Partners In Health

Filmmakers seek visual material from the early days of Partners In Health.

Saxophonist John Payne teaches ensembles, jazz, and improvisation

Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.

by Craig Lambert

Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly’s “Capturing Music,” by Anna Zayaruznaya

The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West

by Anna Zayaruznaya

Gospel choir performs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December

Events on and off campus during November and December

Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis