Attend this year's Harvard College Film Festival on campus! RSVP to attend the events listed below through the Harvard OCS. Films featured in the 2019 HCFF are:

• Turn Off - Jake Wichansky and Maddy Freeman
• Almost - Fiona Kida
• Future In-Laws - Patrick Cressler
• (Much Ado About) Literally Nothing - Eva Neuwirth
• Showtime - Shawn Antoine II
• Run - Leilei Xia
• The Tortoise - Lyndon Hanrahan
• Puppet Free Library - Jared Leong
• r/showerthoughts - Max Mezger
• Emma. - Saskia Hennecke and Grace Tourville
• Partying with Communists  - Vincent Blake
• Party of Two - Maria Alvarez

Come celebrate the memory of professor and playwright William Alfred, who died twenty years ago on May 19, 1999. We will show a funny 1-hour video of various actors -- including Bill Murray, Stockard Channing, Christopher Reeve, Brian Doyle Murray, and Kathryn Walker -- reading some of Bill's favorite poems. There will be drinks (including martinis like Bill served at his house), and snacks (including the sort of cookies and milk he served in his play writing class). Feel free to contact me if you'd like to help host the event. 

The Harvard Law School Association of Los Angeles invites you to Celebrities and Controversy: From Defending Harvey Weinstein to Protecting Revenge Porn Victims, a discussion and networking event.

From #MeToo to alleged hate crime hoaxes to college admissions scandals, and from politics to revenge porn, celebrity controversy is all around us. On cable news and in social media and when talking with friends and family, our culture is obsessed. Please join us for what should be a thought-provoking discussion with experts in managing celebrity crises. Panelists will include:

Blair Berk JD '90, who has been a criminal defense attorney for Harvey Weinstein, Mel Gibson, Brittney Spears, and others.

James Feldman JD '96, who represents actors, directors, writers and producers in the film, television and digital industries. He is also an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School.

Walter Mosley JD '05, who has represented celebrity victims of revenge porn, including Blac Chyna and Teairra Mari.

• 6:00 pm networking
• 7:00 pm program

Cost: $15 in advance including beer, wine, and appetizers // $20 at the door.

The Boys is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Based on a comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. After the screening, stay for a onversation with series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Karen Fukuhara, Elisabeth Shue AB '00 and executive producer/showrunner Eric Kripke.

Versatile actor, director, screenwriter, and producer Rashida Jones AB '97 will be in conversation to discuss an illustrious and accomplished career that spans across a variety of mediums. She co-wrote and starred in the indie breakout film Celeste and Jesse Forever, and received widespread acclaim for her sophomore directorial effort Quincy—an intimate portrait of her father and music legend Quincy Jones. She is the executive producer of the TNT hit-series Clawsand currently stars on the TBS series Angie Tribeca.

From Playbill: Rachel Bloom, creator and star of The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, announced that the cast of the television musical comedy will perform a live show at New York City’s Radio City Musical Hall May 14.

Tickets are not yet on sale, but interested attendees can sign up for notifications about pre-sale at RachelDoesStuff.com.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is currently airing its fourth and final season. Created by Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna AB '89, the show has been nominated for four Emmy Awards; Bloom won the Golden Globe for her performance in the first season. Bloom stars as Rebecca Bunch, who quits her high status Manhattan law firm and moves across the country to West Covina, California, after bumping into an ex-boyfriend who lives there. Each episode features original songs by Bloom, Jack Dolgen, and Adam Schlesinger.

READ: How Rachel Bloom Made a Musical Comedy a Hit TV Show

The cast features numerous stage alumni, including Donna Lynne Champlin (Company), Vincent Rodriguez III, Skylar Astin (Spring Awakening), Gabrielle Ruiz, and David Hull (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), as well as Pete Gardner, Vella Lovell, Scott Michael Foster, and Erick Lopez. No word yet on who will take the stage in the live show.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has also featured Broadway stars in recurring and guest roles, such as Tovah Feldshuh, Patti LuPone, and Josh Groban. The show regularly parodies musical theatre, from numbers inspired by Chicago’s “Cell Block Tango” to Les Misérables “Do You Hear the People Sing?” The April 5 series finale will be followed by the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Concert Special.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend airs Fridays 9PM/8PM C on The CW.

THE PROGRAM

The New York Times best-selling author and comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998 is taking his satirical news column on the road to The Dolby Theatre. Join Andy Borowitz AB '80 for an evening of conversation & storytelling as we get down to addressing what the @#$ is going on! 

Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (the Wall Street Journal), “America’s satire king” (the Daily Beast), “the funniest human on Twitter” (the Times), and “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS News’ “Sunday Morning”). In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor.

The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012. He has published two recent best-selling books: “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” which became the first title in the history of the Library of America to make the Times best-seller list; and a memoir, “An Unexpected Twist,” a No. 1 best-seller, which Amazon named the Best Kindle Single of 2012. His Twitter feed, @BorowitzReport, has more than half a million followers and was voted the best Twitter feed of 2011 in a poll by Time. In 1990, Borowitz created “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” which aired for six seasons on NBC. As a comedian, he has performed sold-out shows around the world and has made countless television and radio appearances, on National Public Radio, VH1, and Comedy Central, among other places.

A limited number of VIP gold circle seats will be available that also includes a post-show photo op (no autographs) with Andy.

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Misaq-e-Ishq means The Covenant of Love and during Misaq-e-Ishq: The Poetry, Music and Spirituality of South Asian Muslim Cultures Ali Asani ’77 (Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard); Pakistani pop star and author Ali Sethi ’06; and vocalist, guitarist and Grammy Award-winning producer Noah Georgeson will bring alive through musical performance, the poetic consciousness of several legendary South Asian mystic poets.

They will explore the lavishly transformative powers of love (ishq), interpreted variously as passion, devotion, ardour, commitment or just plain love. For the featured poets, love is a primordial link that connects the divine to all of creation. Tasting or experiencing the nectar of this love, they believe, is the central purpose of worldly existence. Their poetry, spanning a thousand years, responds to the exigencies of their eras with an idiom that supercedes orthodoxy and dissolves binaries. Join these thought leaders and artists as they invite audiences to understand the human and the divine through the all-encompassing lens of love.

This concert-conversation, which is the closing event of the Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival (May 2-5), is open to the public but requires tickets.

Check this page for information on ticket release dates.