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Harvard has raised the curtain on new secondary field programs for budding actors, dancers, and musicians seeking formal recognition for their work. Minors in music and in dramatic arts, which includes theater and dance, recently became available to undergraduates. Students of drama in particular have long pushed for more academic acknowledgment, either through the creation of a department or concentration. “There’s been a long and difficult process getting credit for theater,” said Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts, the group of faculty and artistic leaders that proposed...
...take on multiple roles. “All these stories are using transformation as a way of helping people obtain universal knowledge and a universal understanding that they might not necessarily have had.” “Metamorphoses” is a fantasy, an intertwined web of drama, tragedy, and growth, but according to the creators, it’s really about the transforming power of love. “There’s this idea of love and the way we love and the way that life is linked to love,” says Nelson...
...Rendition” aspires to be a polarizing film that audiences will discuss long after they leave the theater. Unfortunately, in trying to deliver both an intense thriller and a meaningful political drama, Oscar-winning director Gavin Hood fails to create either, and instead supplies a film far from thoughtful or controversial...
Outsiders and rebels add drama to political life. They also often fail. Clinton, Greeley and Willkie lost their respective elections and had little effect on the parties that they had represented. Only Reagan reached the White House and left a permanent mark on politics. An argument that Alexis de Tocqueville made about history applies to political parties as well: aristocratic ages are shaped by a few individuals; democratic ages, by many acting at once. Parties are mule teams with millions of mules. It takes a great deal to get them to change direction...
...class, which has 22 students and is, according to Livesey, “turning into a reading seminar despite itself,” went on an expedition to the Loeb Drama Center to watch “The Marriage of Figaro,” an opera composed by Mozart during the time period...