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Adams first rose to fame with his 1987 opera Nixon in China, based on Richard Nixon’s 1972 meeting with Mao Tse Tung. It was created in cooperation with librettist Peter M. Sellars ’80 and choreographer Mark Morris, both recent speakers at Harvard...
REAL INSPECTOR HOUND/BLACK COMEDY. This doubleheader of serious comedies offers up Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) and Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) at their funniest. The plays operate within the conceits of the dramatic and artistic spheres, respectively, in order to highlight the contrasts between illusion and reality, the unseen and the visible. Both plays tinker with theatrical conventions to create an evening of non-stop hysterics. Through Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $8, $5 for students and seniors, $4 for Adams House residents, available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Adams House Pool Theatre...
...topical overtones, David Lean’s 1962 classic will soon play on a wide silver screen. A life chronicle of T. E. Lawrence, a British officer who in WWI created a guerilla force out of Arabs waging their own private wars, Lawrence of Arabia has an immortal cast: Peter O’Toole (this year’s Oscar winner for lifetime achievement), Alec Guinness (a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi), Claude Rains (Casablanca’s prefect of police) and Anthony Quinn (who was Zorba the Greek). Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April...
...don’t have to be Peter Gammons to know that the most direct route to Fenway Park isn’t through O’Donnell Field. So why Harvard...
...qualified or unprepared teaching fellow (TF) hired at the last minute. Simultaneously, eleventh-hour TFs hiring causes a great deal of stress for graduate students seeking employment. Both predicaments will be ameliorated by a new policy—announced by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison on Tuesday—that will require faculty to hire their TFs in May for the fall and spring semesters of the following year...