Performing Arts

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

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

Matt Damon will be the 2013 Harvard Arts Medalist

Movie actor Matt Damon has been chosen to receive the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal at the Arts First Festival on April 28.

Actress Marion Cotillard chosen Harvard's Hasty Pudding 2013 Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding Club picks an Oscar winner to receive its pudding pot.

Longtime Harvard band director Tom Everett retires

After more than four decades of service, the maestro retires next month.

Hannah Lash writes modern music with engaging textures

Hannah Lash’s personal, yet crystalline, music

by Thomas Vinciguerra

Irna Phillips, soap opera’s single mother, by Lynn Liccardo

Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973

by Lynn Liccardo

A video with composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10

Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, discusses how she forms a complex piece of music from a simple idea.

Lincoln movie screenplay writer Tony Kushner talks with Harvard President Faust

The screenwriter speaks to the Harvard community at a private screening of the film.

Ken Burns visits Harvard to discuss his new PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl"

Ken Burns shares clips from his chronicle of one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history.

The wealth and fall of David and Jackie Siegel: a documentary

A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”

by Laura Levis