Re-imagining the opera of the future
The iconic sci-fi opera “VALIS,” first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
The iconic sci-fi opera “VALIS,” first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
Makan will lead special projects in his new role, while continuing to serve as head of the Music and Theater Arts Section.
Senior music lecturer Elena Ruehr turns Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, groundbreaking thinkers of modern computing, into crime fighters.
An MIT residency unlocks the dreamlike world of the dance-theater piece “The History of Empires.”
A contemporary reinterpretation of an 18th century ballet reveals the fragility of orientalist fantasies.
Through the MIT Mock Trial program, students hone their skills in public speaking, formulating arguments, and acting.
A cultural anthropologist, historians, a computational poet/computer artist, and a playwright receive funding for innovative research projects.
Senior Anjali Nambrath will graduate with majors in physics and mathematics, a minor in French — and a deep love for theater.
Associate professor of music Emily Richmond Pollock studies the way modern opera incorporates the new and the traditional.
Bilingual, interactive online publication asks how politics, economics, and social conflict shaped the Comédie-Française theater troupe’s repertory and impacted its finances.
In researching and writing a new play, undergraduates delved into the rise of several of MIT’s history-making students.
New ways to think about and practice protective masking, from faculty in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.
MIT hosts "Songs from Extrasolar Spaces," a musical melding of art and science inspired by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
The MIT Playwrights Lab founder discusses the varied connections between the sciences, technology, and the arts.