Xinyu Xu takes home this year’s prize When Xinyu Xu ’26 was eight years old, her entire school was invited to participate in an all-day sports festival at Beijing’s National Stadium—the “Bird’s Nest” stadium that had just been completed for … Continued
MIT’s Dan Safer directs Tony Torn in a surreal anti-war play bound for New York “Hiii-iii! I’m Spider Rabbit.” The man wearing white coveralls, floppy paper ears, and chalky face paint beams out at the crowd. With the jollity of … Continued
Part magic, part social experiment, visiting artist Jeanette Andrews’ “The Attestation” examines preconceived notions and belief polarization At a time when people across the country and the globe have never seemed more polarized, it may sometimes take a different kind … Continued
The Arts Scholars enjoy an unforgettable evening with the cast and crew of Hamilton‘s North American tour Less than one month into the 2025 fall semester, the Arts Scholars have already gathered for three events, most recently an evening at … Continued
Creativity animates every corner of the MIT community, driving students, researchers, and faculty to connect across disciplines in search of new insights. Nowhere are these connections more electric than in the arts. This semester, the MIT community will revel in … Continued
In 1945, towards the end of World War II, Germany’s ten most accomplished scientists were taken captive by the allies and confined to Farm Hall, a villa in the English countryside outside of Cambridge, UK. The group included three Nobel … Continued
Reserve your ticket to “A Body of Beckett,” part of the MIT Performing series February 21, 2019 / 7pm MIT Theater Building W97, 345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA Actress-director Lisa Dwan shares her somatic take on the Irish bard as … Continued
Provocateuse Adrienne Truscott brings her wickedly funny new work to MIT. One of the best anecdotes in Adrienne Truscott’s delightedly vulgar, rampantly feminist, genre-shifting solo-show THIS is about a toilet. Specifically, it’s about a toilet in a camper in a … Continued
The Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Awards are presented annually to up to four students (undergraduate or graduate), living groups, organizations or activities for outstanding achievement in and contributions to the arts at MIT. An endowment fund provides … Continued
On a recent Friday evening, six people gathered around a table in a mostly-empty studio in MIT’s new Theater Arts building on the western edge of campus. In a few hours time, the group—local actors Marge Buckley and Sarah Bedard, … Continued
Jay Scheib, Professor of Theater at MIT, directs Bat Out of Hell, a rock ’n’ roll musical based on Jim Steinman’s eponymous albums made famous by Meat Loaf. First written over forty years ago, Steinman’s dystopian, futuristic adaptation of the … Continued
A performing arts building ushers in a new era of theater at the Institute In 1597, when the Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s lease expired on their theater building in Shoreditch, then still a suburb of the City of London, the company … Continued
MIT Theater Arts professor Jay Schieb directs Bat Out of Hell, a new multimedia musical, which premiered at the Manchester Opera House in March 2017 and ran in Manchester through April 8, 2017. It moved on to the London Coliseum … Continued
Adam Strandberg graduated from MIT in 2014 with a degree in physics. While a student, he was in 20 theatrical productions, from David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow to Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He received the Wiesner Student … Continued
“It’s a tender portrait of a scary thing,” says Anna Kohler, describing her latest theatrical project, Mytho? Lure of Wildness. Kohler’s play explores the fearsome reality of getting old, in particular how aging transforms beauty and affects the senses: “It’s … Continued
Anna Kohler (Senior Lecturer, MTA) spent a good portion of the Spring semester merrily knocking idols off pedestals. With comical derision, she toppled eminent poets Byron, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and took a couple of her own heroes, Bresson and Matisse, … Continued
Mnemosyne, “memory,” is the mother of all the Muses. “Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance,” an international conference devoted to the continuous and living archive, organized by Anna Kohler and Jay Scheib (Music & Theater Arts, MIT), celebrated memory’s role as … Continued
Council for the Arts Tickets Program provides MIT students with access to the Bard and other worthy entertainments Attending a production of one of Shakespeare’s plays is a superb reminder that the origin of the word audience is “to hear.” … Continued