Tag: Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club

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    Like a Kardashian of the Roosevelt era

    Student-written, -directed musical explores, celebrates life of Teddy’s daughter Alice Lee, cousin Eleanor.

    4 minutes
    White House Princess play onstage.
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    Lessons of ‘West Side Story’

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

    6 minutes
    Performers rehearse choreography
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    ‘East Side’ story

    Student-penned musical “The East Side” puts the spotlight on the Harvard Asian Student Arts Project.

    4 minutes
    Performers dancing and singing
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    Student actress or acting student?

    Ashley LaLonde ’20 may soon have the enviable dilemma of choosing between following her dream to Broadway or continuing her studies at Harvard.

    3 minutes
    Rising actress Ashley LaLonde '20
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    New degree of difficulty challenges performers

    Aislinn Brophy was one of the first to study Theater, Dance & Media when the concentration launched two years ago, and believes her pioneering experience bodes well for the future.

    4 minutes
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    In anti-lynching plays, a coiled power

    Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.

    5 minutes
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    Sharing his creative gifts

    South Carolina native Joshuah Campbell, who is graduating with joint degrees in music and French, has discovered the serious side of performing.

    3 minutes
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    Life under the lights and in the lab

    Talented actress and singer Elizabeth Leimkuhler divided her time at Harvard between her love for the stage and her love for all creatures, great and small.

    3 minutes
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    The importance of being earnest

    A Harvard senior creates a student-run show for his senior project. The work grew out of his special concentration in theater arts and performance. “OSCAR at The Crown and the love that dare not speak its name” runs April 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and April 17 at 10:30 p.m.

    4 minutes
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    Getting to the dark heart of ‘Conspiracy’

    Caleb Thompson collaborated with Emmy-winning screenwriter Loring Mandel to bring the 2001 TV film “Conspiracy” to Harvard.

    6 minutes
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    Science under the stage lights

    Harvard Medical School’s Jonathan Beckwith has used his course “Social Issues in Biology” to teach students about the societal implications of science, and now he is collaborating with a Harvard alum Calla Videt to bring his message to the stage.

    7 minutes
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    In on the act

    More than 30 collaborators, including four Harvard undergrads, take the stage in the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) production of “The Lily’s Revenge,” at Oberon through Oct. 28.

    5 minutes
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    Let them both eat cake

    For the first time, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and the Yale Repertory Theatre (Yale Rep) are collaborating on a stage production: the world premiere of “Marie Antoinette.”

    5 minutes
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    A magic wand for artists’ dreams

    With an annual program administered by the Office for the Arts, Harvard undergraduates explore extraordinary opportunities for growth in their fields.

    6 minutes
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    Hooray for Harvardwood

    As a liberal arts college, Harvard doesn’t train its students for jobs in Hollywood. But student clubs, a liaison network, and individual drive prompt some toward entertainment careers, a fact reflected in this year’s Oscar nominees.

    12 minutes
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    Channeling Carson McCullers

    Artists and performers Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik, along with Harvard graduate and director Kay Matschullat ’77, discussed their upcoming musical product at one of Harvard’s newest art spaces.

    4 minutes
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    Sit down, stay a while

    A new season of performances involving the Common Spaces Chairs Project kicked off with the chairs as the star.

    3 minutes