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

On the Margins

Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Jessie Cox

An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music

by Lydialyle Gibson

Remembering Earl Kim

A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.

by Nina Pasquini

Staging Memory

The A.R.T. adapts The Odyssey.

by Max J. Krupnick

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

Banned in Sparta

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert

Five Questions with George Cooper ’25 on Student-Musicians

The College senior on a mixtape of songs produced by student-musicians

by Max J. Krupnick

Five Questions with Jacob Roberts ’19

The actor and filmmaker on creativity, collaboration, and celebrity canines

by Nina Pasquini

Gathering Strings

Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach

by Lydialyle Gibson