Performing Arts
Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.
Two Scientists Bring the Laboratory to the Stage
The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever.
Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.
Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88
The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” at Met prompts new controversy
The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.
Shakespeare e-books link text with new performances
New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.
Two classic harpsichords that Harvard owns
Two keyboards, each with a story to tell
New Orleans jazz comes to Cambridge
Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.
Harvard's Collegium Musicum and Joyful Noise celebrate music as therapy
Harvard’s Collegium Musicum celebrates the power of music as therapy.
At Harvard, economist Jacques Attali discusses music and political economy
French economist Jacques Attali discusses music as a metaphor for civil society.
Steven Spielberg speaks at Harvard’s Hauser Forum for the Arts
The filmmaker discusses his influences and inspirations.
Bob Childs makes world-class violins
Bob Childs makes world-class violins.
by Laura Levis