Performing & Recorded Arts

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

A dynamic dance performance featuring multiple performers engaging with props on stage.

‘Passengers’ at A.R.T. Blends Acrobatics with Einstein’s Relativity

Review: Quantum mechanics meets circus arts at the American Repertory Theater’s performance

by Olivia Farrar

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alexander Heffner Interviews Republican and Democratic Politicians

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Construction site at the intersection of Academic Way and North Harvard Street. Two tall, unfinished concrete structures stand behind a fenced area with various signs and banners.

Construction Underway on Harvard’s American Repertory Theater

American Repertory Theater’s Allston construction announced.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Madeline Benson singing at the piano, her face lit up on an otherwise dark stage

Broadway Director from Harvard Adapting Disney

Broadway music director Madeline Benson on art and collaboration

by Lydialyle Gibson

College students, one with a trump, another with an upright bass, gather around a piano with Dizzy Gillespie, who plays his trumpet while a student pianist also plays

A New Chapter for Harvard Arts

The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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Dominica’s “Bouyon” Star

Musician “Shelly” Alfred’s indigenous Caribbean sound

by Jose Alison Kentish

Moore dancing with the Universal Robotics robot

The Harvard Ballerina and Physicist

Ballerina and quantum physicist Merritt Moore ’11 connects humans and machines.

by Nina Pasquini

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter-Brown

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Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

Wintry Portsmouth at sunset

No Sleepy Coastal Town

Visiting Portsmouth in winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

A woman with a backpack and a cup of coffee in a forest with fake snow and a small horse-drawn wagon.

Behind the Scenes

The quirky surrealism of production designer Sue Chan

by Stuart Miller