Coolidge is Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
Actor Jennifer Coolidge is expected to be in Harvard Square on Feb. 4 for a parade, roast and presentation of the Pudding Pot by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Bob Odenkirk is Hasty Pudding Man of the Year
Bob Odenkirk was named Thursday as the 2023 Man of the Year by The Hasty Pudding Theatricals and is expected to be in town for a celebration Feb. 2.
Social media is the new admissions ambassador
As elite colleges grow more selective, social media lets a new generation of college content creators offer a tantalizing glimpse of life behind the curtain.
New Arrow Street Arts takes over Oberon space, adding performance spaces to Harvard Square
A street-front Arrow Street Arts studio is expected to open in the second quarter of 2023, and an attached renovated black box theater will follow late in the year, said the new nonprofit in a press release embargoed until Wednesday.
A.R.T.’s ‘Evita’ comes to Cambridge in the spring, while Harvard has filed to move theater to Allston
After the current run of “Life of Pi,” the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square stages a Chaucerian comedy and a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera “Evita” – announcements made shortly after Harvard’s formal filing of plans to move its theaters to Allston.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from ‘Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll’ to a Poetry Brothel
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a book on the “Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll” as well as more music to hear, a Poetry Brothel as well as more basic readings, nature walks and museums, labor history and “Lovefool” and holiday happenings from shopping strolls to drag shows.
Tenant for Oberon space will be named in 2023; Once music club went far in an obscure process
An unnamed but “exciting” tenant has been chosen for 2 Arrow St. for the new year, replacing the venue formerly known as Harvard University’s Oberon theater.
The royals are the latest of visiting dignitaries, planning stops in Cambridge and Somerville (updated)
Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, are in town for the 2022 Earthshot awards in Boston, but their itinerary brings them to Somerville’s Greentown Labs on Thursday and Harvard in Cambridge on Friday.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville from ‘The Grimkes’ to Giving Tree kickoff event
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, holiday shopping is underway and so is the Harvard Square Business Association’s Giving Tree tradition, and there’s comedy, music, book readings and interactive events such as the Cardboard City Big Group Build at The MIT Museum.
Pillars of abolitionism and of their communities, but the family home is paved, the Clary name lost
An obituary described Francis Prince Clary as “custodian of the Harvard Chemical Laboratory for nearly his entire adult life”; a “natural musician”; “prominent in Masonry”; and a man who “held the esteem of the entire community.”
