Featured series 
Tag: Theater
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Arts & Culture
All the world’s a stage
The American Repertory Theater’s upcoming season lineup will include three world premieres.
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Campus & Community
Coed Hasty Pudding makes its debut
This year marked the first in the group’s 171-year history that women took the stage as part of the Hasty Pudding cast. Six men and six women make up this year’s onstage talent in the original student musical “France France Revolution!”
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Work & Economy
Lurking in your favorite song, the law
Professor and author Derek Miller discusses the origins and history of copyright law and the goals of the Music Modernization Act.
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Arts & Culture
Immigration, under the stage lights
At Harvard, a Houghton Library exhibit showcases the influence of immigration on American theater.
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Arts & Culture
From the page to the stage
Composer and writer Min Kahng talks about how he created his musical “Four Immigrants” in advance of his Harvard visit.
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Campus & Community
A model faculty
Departing FAS Dean Michael Smith’s investment in world-class scholars is paying big dividends, colleagues say.
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Arts & Culture
More ‘Answers’ than expected
La’Toya Princess Jackson, a master’s of liberal arts candidate in dramatic arts, takes a main role, and learns more than just her part.
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Arts & Culture
A concentration’s first growth spurt
As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media specialty turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First at 25
Since 1992, Arts First has had a profound effect on more than just the students who go on to become professional artists.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Arts & Culture
Even in ‘Hamilton,’ a glimpse of mediocrity
New research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, highlights the starring role of “decidedly average” in the history of art.
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Arts & Culture
Confronting campus issues from the stage
The Bok Center Players specialize in thought-provoking theater examining race, gender, and identity.
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Campus & Community
Deeper creativity
New Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey talks about his goals for the division.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
Creative, cultured, and diverse
The annual Arts First festival showcased many forms of imaginative expression and creativity across Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
For the love of theater
Amy Brenneman and Sabrina Peck, who connected over their love of theater while undergrads at Harvard, are longtime collaborators. Last week they came back to Harvard to teach a workshop on how to create original theater from personal experience.
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Arts & Culture
A vivid life
The life and art of Mark Rothko are examined in the new play “Red,” to be performed at Harvard Art Museums.
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Campus & Community
Theater, Dance, and Media
A new arts concentration will offer classes this fall, and students will be able to declare the concentration officially in December.
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Campus & Community
Snark and recreation
“Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler livened up Harvard Square as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year.
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Arts & Culture
Behind ‘Peter Pan’
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) will stage the premiere of “Finding Neverland.” The new musical, about the real-life genesis of J.M. Barrie’s groundbreaking work “Peter Pan,” runs from July 23 through Sept. 28.
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Arts & Culture
Classroom magic
A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Shakespeare scholar Marjorie Garber collaborated on a fall freshman seminar titled “Theater and Magic.”
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Campus & Community
Meet Kiefer, Man of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard University has named Emmy Award-winning actor Kiefer Sutherland as its 2013 Man of the Year. He will be honored on Feb. 8.
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Arts & Culture
Direct from Broadway
The Broadway star Christine Ebersole shared her advice and some tricks of the trade with three undergraduates during a master class sponsored by Harvard’s Office for the Arts.
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Arts & Culture
Hip-hop and spoken word at Harvard
Harvard Law School graduate Bryonn Bain brings his dynamic teaching style to campus this fall with his new course “Hip Hop and the Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory.”
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Arts & Culture
From ‘Emma’ to ‘Charlie Brown’
Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre (HRST) welcomes Harvard undergraduates of all ages and majors to participate in its summer repertory company. The 30 Harvard students participating in the 2012 HRST program and have been collaborating on three plays since mid-May.
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Arts & Culture
Strong showing for musicals with A.R.T. ties
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Once” — two shows with pre-Broadway origins at the American Repertory Theater — had a boffo night at Sunday’s Tony Awards, taking home the prizes for best musical revival and best musical, respectively.
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Campus & Community
OFA awards undergrad art prizes
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2012.
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Campus & Community
Paulus honored for directing excellence
The American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2012 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.
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Campus & Community
Theater Reimagined – Innovation at Harvard
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is seeking new ways to redefine and reimagine theater for the Harvard community and beyond.
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Campus & Community
May 14 memorial for David Wheeler
A memorial service has been set for longtime A.R.T. resident director David Wheeler, who died Jan. 4.