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. 

by Olivia Farrar

The Windmill Movie

Filmmaker Alexander Olch has made an biographical documentary based on footage left behind by his mentor, Richard Rogers.

by Craig Lambert

Music, Taken Personally

A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.

Diaghilev and His Geniuses

The Harvard Theatre Collection opens an exhibition and hosts a symposium on Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

by Craig Lambert

Pardis Sabeti

For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.

Song for Hard Times

The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.

A Scourge Remembered

A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

A Yodel for Help in the Modern World

Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.

by Craig Lambert

Advice on Art and Life from Yo-Yo Ma

The cello virtuoso speaks to students interested in arts careers, and President Faust announces progress on arts offerings.

Zellweger Gets Her Pudding Pot

Traffic came to a stop in Harvard Square today for a parade with Renée Zellweger, the Hasty Pudding "woman of the year."

Chiara String Quartet

The Chiara String Quartet are Harvard's current Blodgett Artists-in-Residence.