Freshman year is kind of like a circus: it has ups, downs, highs, lows, new and bizarre experiences, and (especially at Harvard) a generous helping of freaky, freaky people. Thus, it is an apt choice that Lost and Clowned, this year’s Freshman Musical, is set in the creepy Carnival Bol Rozcu and populated by...
It has been sixteen and a half years since the last recorded production of Wendy Wasserstein’s 1988 play The Heidi Chronicles at Harvard University, and Charlotte Alter’s (’12)* current production will certainly go down in the books as a very successful undertaking of this difficult play. Albeit a bit rough around the edges, The Heidi...
What happens when you blend Absurdism, Surrealism, and Postmodernism within the confines of a one-act student production? You get a mole, a lobster, a moody music teacher, a pink-haired protagonist and a temporal hodgepodge for a plot. Leah, written by Sonia Coman (’11) and directed by Jan Luksic (’11), ran in the Loeb Experimental Theatre...
The American Repertory Theater’s latest production, a two hour and forty minute marathon rendition of Clifford Odets’ 1935 Depression drama Paradise Lost, would seem to be an inspired and relevant choice of source material. In the midst of the current economic crisis, this tale about the death of the American Dream could have been...
Natalie Feldman (’12) made her Harvard directorial debut with Peter Shaffer’s Five Finger Exercise, which played in the Loeb Ex earlier this month. With a strong focus on acting and text, the production gave insight on the relationships within a family by deconstructing it, and tantalizingly stops the action right before the puzzle...
Criminals are Afoot (directed and written by Kristi J. Bradford ’12) went up in the Adams Pool Theatre February 25th-27th, 2010 and was divided into two parts: “Narcolepsy” and “How to Finance a Vacation”. Narcolepsy Adams House has a reputation for attracting eclectic, offbeat artistic productions of all types, and Criminals Are Afoot is...
HPT 162: Commie Dearest, an original musical with book and lyrics by Alexandra Petri ’10 and Megan Amram ’10 (from this point on referred to as Pamram ’10), and music by Alex Lipton ’11, continued the second week of its five week run this Wednesday, February 18, 2010. The latest production by the Hasty...
The annual Harvard production of the Vagina Monologues, sponsored by the Harvard Office of Sexual Assault and Prevention and Harvard Men Against Rape, is generally a heartwarmingly homespun experience, with a cast of all degrees of range and ability. In the past two years, and this year as well, the cast’s greatest strength is...
For many, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is more of a title than a living, breathing piece of American theater. The play is better known for its ubiquitous inclusion in high-school English syllabi than its performance history. Thus, it is our good fortune to have Megan O’Keefe’s (‘11) fine production currently running in the...
