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

Bias in Artificial Intelligence

Data journalist Meredith Broussard on “the civil-rights issue of our time”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Katori Hall Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Hot Wing King wins the 2021 prize for drama.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Putting the Music in Musical Theater

Composer Zoe Sarnak’s warm-hearted songs

by Lydialyle Gibson

Musician and professor Braxton Shelley

A gospel scholar shapes music theory.

by Jacob Sweet

Community-engaged research lessons for students via Harvard’s Mindich Program

The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.

by Che Applewhaite

Journalist Chris Wallace, profiled by Craig Lambert

Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”

by Craig Lambert

Singer, songwriter, harmonica player Scott Albert Johnson

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet

Bringing the Stars to Light

Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.

by Lydialyle Gibson

An intellectual history of the Cold War era

In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

“Some Kind of Heaven,” a documentary by Lance Oppenheim

Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.

by Alex Huls