Campus Arts
Musical March Sisters Premiere
Not too far from Cambridge is the Orchard House, the home of famed Massachusetts author Louisa May Alcott and the inspiration for her 19th-century novel “Little Women.” This beloved classic was adapted as a musical in 2004. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production about the famous March sisters will run from Thursday to Nov. 9 in Farkas Hall.
Still a Man's World?
“The essence of a conductor’s profession is strength. The essence of a woman is weakness,” said Yuri Temirkanov, former music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. As women’s representation in many fields increases, classical music lags further and further behind, both in the wider music community and at Harvard itself.
Artist Spotlight: Helen Lawlor
Helen Lawlor works at the intersection of music and cultural heritage. An award-winning Celtic harpist, Lawlor is also a renowned scholar in the field of Irish musical culture and ethnomusicology.
'The Bacchae' Botches Dionysus
“The Bacchae” is one of Euripides’ most enduringly resonant tragedies, centered on the misfortunes of the house of Cadmus that flow from its denial of the god Dionysus. “The Bacchae,” although it does not have a particularly well-known plot, at least has a well-known main character, the god Dionysus. David Greig’s generally elegant and faithful translation strikes a good balance between poetic expression and intelligibility.
"Is He Dead?" Alive and Well
A night of fake mustaches, cross-dressing, revenge, French accents, and staged deaths ensued at Adams Pool Theatre in Mark Twain’s play “Is He Dead?” which ran through Sunday. With clever staging by director Olivia M. Munk ’16 and hilarious acting, the production was intriguing and funny, perfectly executing Twain’s witty script.
Inside "4th Graders"
It isn’t every day in the world of theater that juice boxes get thrown around as metaphors for life. Productions centering around the suicides of school-aged children don’t usually incite lighthearted laughter from audiences. Plays rarely aspire to the realm of unadulterated metatheatre that consists of adult actors portraying elementary school children portraying themselves in another play.
Athenæum a Hidden Gem of Art Collection
Boston is a city of numerous cultural institutions—one can easily attend school here for four years without exploring all the opportunities available. One such often-missed opportunity is the Boston Athenæum, which is trying to change this state of affairs with the exhibition “Collecting for the Boston Athenæum in the 21st Century: Paintings and Sculpture.”
In the 'Antigonick' of Time
In Anne Carson’s translation of “Antigone,” she attempts to express the importance of what is left unsaid. By choosing to take out much of the original text, Carson zeros in on the most pressing themes of the original Greek classic, at the same time creating space for the audience to fill in some of the gaps. In collaboration with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, visiting director Ianthe Demos will put up a production of “Antigonick,” opening Oct. 25 on the Loeb Mainstage.
Harvard Pianists Give Street Piano Lessons
At Brattle Plaza, the people clustering around the piano were enthusiastic, with one member of the crowd drumming on the piano and another four flying up and down the keys. They conferred with one another which song to play next. Cherie Z. Hu ’17 offered “Hey Jude” as the final suggestion.
"Daisies" Exhibit Takes Playtime Seriously at GSE
Molly Quill's "Decapitating Daisies," in the Graduate School of Education's Gutman Library through Oct. 31, reflects on childhood as a defining moment in an individual’s social development and sense of identity. "I was really interested in the duality of being an adult and an outsider as well as a playmate to these children," Quill says.
'#Queers' A #success
With the tagline “we’re born, and the rest is just one big, bad fuck,” one would expect “#Queers,” a new student-written production that ran through Sunday in the Adams Pool Theatre, to push boundaries. The show certainly lived up to its slogan—almost to excess—with provocative humor, direct discussion of sex, exploration of queer relationships, and a scene set in a sex club
