Arts
Floreat Domus de Eliot
This summer, Eliot House will begin to undergo a major transformation, forcing all of us proud residents to relocate to overflow housing for the next couple of years. While the community and people will still be here (thankfully), it’s hard not to feel a little sentimental about leaving the building itself behind. Eliot is more […]
On The Job from 9 to 5
On the opening night of “9 to 5: The Musical,” a large audience gathered in Agassiz Theater to watch Harvard’s musical adaptation of the famous 1980 movie. Patricia Resnick and Colin Higgins wrote the original screenplay, which Resnick later adapted into a book (script) with country star Dolly Parton, who also provided the soundtrack and […]
Your Summer 2025 Reading List
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin ’00 A beautiful novel that explores the depths of friendship over decades between two childhood friends, Sadie and Sam, who begin creating video games together alongside Marx, Sam’s college roommate. The novel is partially set in Cambridge—Sam and Marx go to Harvard, and Sadie attends MIT. The […]
A Love Letter to the Moon and to the Theater
This past weekend, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club put up a sparkling example of theatre at its best in the Loeb Experimental Theater. One of the semester’s final theater productions, HRDC’s production of PigPen Theatre Co.’s “The Old Man and the Old Moon,” was near-perfect. Directed by Ria Cuéllar-Koh ’26, the show was light-hearted in tone […]
Spring
The sun wakes me up right around half past six every morning. It’s my fault—I refuse to ever close the blinds. Today, it’s especially bright. A stack of unread books that I’ve promised myself I will one day finish rests on my windowsill. Well, that’s only partially true. I’m halfway through the book on top—The […]
ETERNAL to LEGACY: Eleganza 2025
Eleganza is a dance fashion show, uniquely fusing clothing and movement to create a unique, vibrant production that is equally thrilling for both audience members and performers. As model Della Williams ’27 exclaimed, “[Eleganza] was truly one of the best days of my time here.” The show was founded in 1994 by Black C.A.S.T., Harvard […]
Thoughts from New Quincy: Permanent Collection
I. You don’t remember arriving. The museum breathes with a low mechanical rasp—the kind of sound that, once heard, can’t be unheard. The overhead lights buzz, a grid of harsh rectangles sunk into the ceiling. They stutter, casting a cold, exhausted glow. The floor tiles, the color of old teeth, shift slightly underfoot—almost like the […]
Weekend Arts Wrap-Up
This past weekend, arts groups across campus were busy sharing their talent and work from all over the world with our Harvard community. This week, we’ll be highlighting four student-run performances that wowed their audiences on Friday and Saturday. The Harvard Undergraduate Candela Latin Dance Troupe Annual Showcase: “Un Viaje Por El Mundo” This past […]
“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore”
Softness Breaks Quietly you’re breakfast in bed takeout when it’s raining jumping over cracks in the sidewalk lying on fresh laundry after a shower skipping down an empty street but we fall you tear out a page and leave it with me you smile with your eyes and hesitantly touch don’t start without me! but […]