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.
Wynton Marsalis speaks at Harvard on the soul of jazz
The bandleader weaves performance and storytelling to paint a picture of jazz in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Helen Mirren Honored as Woman of the Year
The Academy Award-winning actress was at the center of the annual Hasty Pudding parade.
Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger dies at 94
The folk singer and activist inspired many.
Neil Patrick Harris is the Hasty Pudding Club's 2014 Man of the Year
The Emmy-winning actor and singer will receive his Hasty Pudding Pot February 7.
Harvard's Hasty Pudding picks Helen Mirren as its Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding picks an Oscar winner for its pudding pot.
Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry
The jazz pianist will give six lectures in February and March.
Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
Foreign Parts, a movie, records a Queens neighborhood now set for demolition
The Queens neighborhood, about to be demolished, has been documented by Harvard-affiliated filmmakers.
"The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" reveals hidden science references
Simon Singh’s new book reveals multiple math references in the show and reveals their Harvard sources.
Composer Michael Friedman and The Civilians
Composer Michael Friedman’s “investigative theater”