Tag: Diane Paulus

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Arts & Culture

    Personal stories of transformation

    A new multimedia collaboration inspired by the A.R.T. production “Wild Swans” aims to capture and spread personal stories from members of the Greater Boston community with ties to China.

  • Arts & Culture

    Let there be music

    As a liberal arts college, Harvard trains its students broadly so they can adapt nimbly to a rapidly changing world. Increasingly, appreciating and participating in music are integral parts of student life.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard launches city lecture series

    Harvard is launching a lecture and program series in the Boston and Cambridge public libraries. President Drew Faust will give the inaugural address of the new John Harvard Book Celebration on Jan. 10.

  • Campus & Community

    Former A.R.T. resident director dies

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

  • Arts & Culture

    Making ‘Nixon in China’

    Three major players in contemporary music reconvened at Harvard, their alma mater, to discuss their groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China,” based on Nixon’s seminal visit in 1972.

  • Campus & Community

    Breakthrough

    In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Power of Theater

    Diane Paulus Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater Professor of the Practice of Theater, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Nixon in China’ and at Harvard

    Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion Nov. 15 with the alumni behind the groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China” as part of Harvard’s 375th anniversary celebration.

  • Campus & Community

    Reimagining ‘Summertime’

    Students from the Boston Collegiate Charter School reinterpreted the classic song “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” as part of a two-day workshop conducted by the A.R.T./MXAT Institute.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Porgy and Bess,’ made new

    A.R.T. reimagines the classic Gershwin opera, with help from some Harvard undergraduates.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    A provost’s view across a decade

    Steven E. Hyman, who is stepping down after leading Harvard’s sweeping expansion into interdisciplinary research, recalls the challenges and changes of his long tenure.

  • Campus & Community

    Wynton Marsalis to launch lecture series at Harvard University

    Harvard University announced today (April 4) that Wynton Marsalis will launch a two-year performance and lecture series on April 28, with an appearance at Sanders Theatre. Currently the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is an accomplished musician, composer, bandleader and educator who has made the promotion of jazz and cultural literacy his…

  • Arts & Culture

    Lessons from a master

    Jazz great Wynton Marsalis will make several visits to campus over the next two years, lecturing on a variety of topics to illuminate the relationship between American music and the American identity.

  • Arts & Culture

    Theater’s new frontiers

    Offbeat Director John Tiffany, whose company stages productions in unlikely locales, is using a fellowship year at Radcliffe to explore the ways that people communicate, complete with tics.

  • Campus & Community

    Obama honors Robert Brustein

    The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2.

  • Nation & World

    Don’t just sit there

    The first of a series of campuswide dialogues on teaching and learning called “Conversations@FAS: Redefining Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century,” featured A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus; Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology; and David Malan, lecturer on computer science.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Don’t stop the music

    A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz explored the American musical in the 21st century during a discussion at Oberon.

  • Arts & Culture

    What they’re reading

    A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.

  • Arts & Culture

    An explosion of creativity

    The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Stage set for theater festival

    The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.

  • Arts & Culture

    A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

  • Arts & Culture

    A.R.T. announces two new executive appointments

    Diane Borger has been named A.R.T. producer and Tiffani Gavin has been named the director of finance and administration at the A.R.T.

  • Campus & Community

    Undergrads act up

    A new collaboration among the A.R.T. Institute, Harvard’s Office for the Arts, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club offers students an intense, three-week immersion program involving graduate-level training in the dramatic arts.

  • Campus & Community

    The Spark: Diane Paulus

    It was nearing 2 a.m. on a spring night in 1990, and 24-year-old Diane Paulus was unwinding with a group of young actors who, like her, had just completed a round of acting classes with the legendary director Mike Nichols.

  • Arts & Culture

    Entrance, stage left

    Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘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.