Performing Arts

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

A New Black Swan Musical Cranks Up the Tension

The creative team of the A.R.T.’s new show dish on adapting Darren Aronofsky’s thriller classic from screen to stage.

by Schuyler Velasco

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

Art, lectures, cultural and campus events at Harvard

Harvard arts and cultural events

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Happenings in September and October

Early fall events at and around Harvard

"Wisteria" CD by jazz pianist Steve Kuhn shows good things come in trios

For his new CD, Wisteria, jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Composer and musician Ben Cosgrove portrays place in "Yankee Division," a new CD

Composer Ben Cosgrove connects sound and place.

by David Rice