Performing & Recorded Arts

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

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

Under the Bar

An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House

Actor Jonathan Epstein’s Sonnet Workshop: A Video

Watch the Shakespearean actor take the stage during one of his sonnet workshops.

Sonnets and the Stage

Actor Jonathan Epstein teaches “five-finger exercises for the soul.”

by Craig Lambert

Five-letter Word for Magic

David Kwong has a trick that’s all his own.

by Qichen Zhang

Yannatos Remembered

The longtime Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra conductor's life was celebrated by his former students, his colleagues, and his family.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Nixon in China Creators Re-create

Composer John Adams John Adams ’69, A.M. ’72, librettist Alice Goodman ’80, and director Peter Sellars ’80 talked on a panel about their 1987 opera Nixon in China.

Modern Moves Keep Dance Company Contemporary

The oldest Harvard-Radcliffe student dance group celebrates 35 years.

Conductor and Composer James Yannatos Has Died

The beloved former director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra served for almost half a century.

Jill Johnson Brings the Heat to Harvard Dance

A Q&A with the new OFA dance director

From “New College Theatre” to Farkas Hall

Andrew Farkas ’82 endows the reconstructed Hasty Pudding venue.