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.
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.
The Force Was With Them
Kevin Rafferty has made a documentary film, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, about the 1968 football game.
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book...
An Argument for Music
Critic Alex Ross keeps "classical" music current...
by Paul Gleason
Two Musical Neighborhoods
Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation...
Thoroughly Eclectic
Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...
From Soaps to Solos
Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...
This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Harvard~Part Three
Harvard-specific adaptation of a Shakespearean excerpt by playwright Alison Carey ’82...
Set Design for Grease
Theatrical set designer Derek McLane ’80 shows how his work progresses — from initial sketches on a yellow legal pad through the musical’s finished sets...