Arts & Culture

A selection of theater, music, and art events in Boston this winter.

New A.R.T. play, “Gloria: A Life,” explores Steinem’s past and feminism today through talking circles.

When the Sundance Film Festival begins, Harvard’s artistic talent will be well represented by Shirley Chen ’22 and Lance Oppenheim ’19.

For the next month the Harvard Film Archive will showcase Alfred Hitchcock’s early works, a set of nine films on loan from the British Film Institute, which restored and rereleased the 35 millimeter prints in 2014.

Christine Leunens, A.L.M. ’04, will be watching the Oscars on Feb. 9 as “Jojo Rabbit,” based on her award-winning second novel, “Caging Skies,” has been nominated for six Oscars, including best picture.

Harvard junior Julia Riew decided to bring a special message to the A.R.T. stage with “Thumbelina,” this year’s family holiday show.

An exhibit of indigenous-language materials is now housed in Tozzer Library. The exhibit will run until June 2020.

With her new opera, the composer’s goal was to transform one of the largest music theaters in Germany into a space “where there is nobody else.”

Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack will talk about the Beatles and feminism on Dec. 12 at Harvard.

Memorial Church composer in residence Carson Cooman discusses his latest noel.

Exhibit explores themes of immigration, home, and belonging with art.

“Truth Hurts: A Transformational Cabaret,” designed and performed by Harvard students in Theater, Dance & Media, embraces the anything-goes form in a dramatic satire of campus life.

A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar

Dave Malloy, who turned “War and Peace” into Tony Award-winning musical, takes on “Moby-Dick.”

In Aysha Upchurch’s new course, “Hip Hop Dance: Exploring the Groove and the Movement Beneath and Beyond the Beat,” students learn the histories behind some of their favorite moves.

At the Radcliffe Institute, Alaskan Inupiaq poet and Harvard alum Joan Naviyuk Kane keeps her language and culture alive through her art and her family.

Harvard University professor Matt Liebmann is an archaeologist who has spent decades alongside the people of Jemez Pueblo, using science to give fresh life to tribal stories.

Prolific writer, scholar, and cultural organizer Eve L. Ewing is focused on community-based arts and culture projects in her city of Chicago.

Scientists at Harvard published a study on music as a cultural product, which examines what features of song tend to be shared across societies.

Harvard College student Karalyn Joseph is combining her passion for theater and her love of community to nurture performers of all abilities.

A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.

“Love in a Mist (and the Politics of Fertility),” the fall exhibit at the Graduate School of Design, examines ways culture seeks to control women and nature.

Cast and crew of Harvard’s new production of West Side Story wrestle with the classic musical’s racial, ethnic, and political complications

In a first-year seminar, students study portraits of indigenous American leaders to learn about art, identity, and the history of indigenous peoples.

In a Radcliffe talk, an expert on regenerative medicine and a transdisciplinary artist explore the heart as organ and metaphor.

For six decades, Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan players have staged romping and boisterous productions.

Walé Oyéjidé talks about art and fashion ahead of a screening of his new documentary, “After Migration: Calabria,” on campus Nov. 12.

Three Hindu monastics share their thoughts on Harvard Divinity School and the world they will return to.

Boston-area high school students will perform “Freedom Acts” on Nov. 2‒3. As part of the A.R.T.’s Proclamation Project, the play tackles questions of what hypocrisies and contradictions exist in what we think of as American freedom.

In a class called “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” Harvard students put their imaginations to work creating tales of demons, monsters, and ghosts.