Tag: Loeb Drama Center

  • Nation & World

    ‘Thumbelina’ carries big message to the stage

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

    5 minutes
    Illustration with Thumbelina.
  • Nation & World

    Fall into art

    A sampling of the season’s best in local music, theater, and visual arts.

    8 minutes
    CAST OF SIX
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    All the world’s a stage

    The American Repertory Theater’s upcoming season lineup will include three world premieres.

    2 minutes
    Views of Loeb Drama Center
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    Former A.R.T. resident director dies

    David Wheeler, longtime resident director and later associate artist of the American Repertory Theater, died Jan. 4.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A.R.T. nabs six Elliot Norton Awards

    The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, awarded on May 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, honored the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) with six awards in the Large Theater category.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Harvard at 375

    The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.

    14 minutes
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    The timelessness of war

    In a collaboration with the American Repertory Theater and the Theater of War, members of the military and civilians attended a reading of the ancient Greek drama “Ajax and Philoctetes” and took part in a discussion about the psychological impact of war.

    4 minutes
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    Students go Dada over project

    A group of Harvard undergrads collaborated on period artworks that grace the Loeb’s lobby for the A.R.T.’s avant-garde musical “The Blue Flower.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Shakespeare Exploded’

    A.R.T. leads effort to keep Shakespeare’s plays relevant for modern times, with its primary mission what his likely was: to lure audiences into the theater.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Grace in the Dark’

    In her one-woman shows, Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated writer and actress Anna Deavere Smith spins interviews into a theatrical performance. Weaving the words she has collected into an evocative tapestry, she brings to life characters ranging from a photographer in Iraq to a Harvard theologian to a Kentucky Derby jockey to a Rwanda genocide survivor.

    5 minutes