Performing Arts

Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.

A man sitting at a wooden table in a formal setting with portraits on the wall.

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

Harvard dancers Rebecca Neumann, Rossi Walter, Nazc-a-ru Gonzalez, and Halimeda Glickman-Hoch perform "Quartet for the End of Time."

Choreographer Irineo Cabreros studies physics but is passionate about dance

The Harvard senior displays impressive range, from his dance compositions to his extra-choreographical pursuits.

by Kris Wilton

In a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant on-stage conversation with actor and master of ceremonies John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, Matt Damon talked about his career in Hollywood and reminisced about his Cambridge roots, including his days at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School and his undergraduate years at Harvard.

Matt Damon is the 2013 Harvard Arts Medalist

The actor receives the 2013 Arts Medal to kick off the Arts First celebration.

Onstage at Sanders, left to right: Joshua Redman '91, Tom Everett, Don Braden '85

jazz concert for Tom Everett of Harvard Bands

The Harvard University Jazz Bands performed a special concert for recently retired director Tom Everett.

Nick Wyman (on the set of <i>The Single Girls Guide)</i> promotes fair pay for hard-working actors.

Nick Wyman promotes the arts as president of Actors' Equity Association

A Broadway actor on the “true spark of theater”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

Kevin Ott was sentenced to prison for 54 years for possessing three ounces—roughly the weight of a greeting card—of methamphetamine.

"The House I Live In" examines the link between American drug laws and poverty.

The House I Live In examines the link between American drug laws and poverty.

<i>All Things Considered</i> host Melissa Block

"All Things Considered" host Melissa Block talks about the show.

Melissa Block '83, host of the NPR show All Things Considered, spoke about it at the Radcliffe Institute.

Celia Keenan-Bolger as Laura and Brian J. Smith as Jim

American Repertory Theater presents Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie”

Tennessee Williams gets his first ART production.

Kiefer Sutherland

Actor Kiefer Sutherland chosen Harvard's Hasty Pudding 2013 Man of the Year

The Golden Globe-winning actor will receive his Pudding Pot February 8.

Marion Cotillard with members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals before entering Harvard Square.

Marion Cotillard honored as Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

The Rust and Bone actress was at the center of the annual Hasty Pudding parade.