Theater
Portrait of an Artist: Emily B. Hyman ’13
Emily B. Hyman ’13 discusses her career as an actress in Harvard’s theater community.
‘Shapes’ Grounded by Electric Acting
The show’s actor-focused attitude preserves LaBute’s witty, fast-paced banter while also allowing serious consideration of the ethical problems with “shaping” another human being, the play’s central thematic concern.
Preview: Little Shop of Horrors
This production will attempt to toe the line between the source material’s ridiculous, lighthearted aspects and dark, twisted plot progression without deviating into camp.
Looking Back at ‘Nixon in China’
“You will never see the world more clearly than you see it right now,” said acclaimed theater director Peter M. Sellars ’80 as he sat among his collaborators—including composer John C. Adams ’69, and librettist Alice A. Goodman ’80—to discuss the creation of the opera “Nixon in China.”
Preview: Spring Awakening
The musical follows rebellious genius Melchior Gabor and his newly pubescent friends as they learn about the facts of life, in defiance of an adult society in late 19th-century Germany which attempts to keep them in the dark.
Probing Identity in Kinetic ‘CryHurtFood’
The physical movements of chimpanzees and their researchers are the last place where you would expect to find a haunting exploration of humanity itself.
Preview: The Shape of Things
This Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production, directed by Allen J. MacLeod ’14, takes a sparse, character-focused look at such unsettled thematic questions through the lens of a rapidly disintegrating relationship.
Canny Acting Drives Poignant ‘Youth’
Ultimately, though, it is the actors who convincingly display the tension between the fear of being unremarkable and an inability to take action.
‘Mabou Mines DollHouse’ Oversimplifies
A trio of singing midgets, a live pianist pounding away at a keyboard, and a dizzying strobe light seem to ...