Performing & Recorded Arts

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

‘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

Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

The folk singer and activist inspired many.

Neil Patrick Harris is the Hasty Pudding Club's 2014 Man of the Year

The Emmy-winning actor and singer will receive his Hasty Pudding Pot February 7.

Harvard's Hasty Pudding picks Helen Mirren as its Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding picks an Oscar winner for its pudding pot.

Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry

The jazz pianist will give six lectures in February and March.

Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters

In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.

by Craig Lambert

Foreign Parts, a movie, records a Queens neighborhood now set for demolition

The Queens neighborhood, about to be demolished, has been documented by Harvard-affiliated filmmakers.

"The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" reveals hidden science references

Simon Singh’s new book reveals multiple math references in the show and reveals their Harvard sources.

Composer Michael Friedman and The Civilians

Composer Michael Friedman’s “investigative theater”

by Tom Vinciguerra

Courtney B. Vance, Charlie Albright headline Harvard campaign entertainment

Alumni artists Charlie Albright and Courtney B. Vance at the campaign festivities

The play “All the Way” depicts the early Lyndon Johnson presidency.

The play All the Way at the ART depicts the conflicts of LBJ's first year in the White House.