Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk ...
Described by Bertolt Brecht as a “gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all,” THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ...
Bertolt Brecht was always in love with the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, home of the Berliner Ensemble. It is more than a hundred years old, and has an odd, lozengeshaped tower. Inside, there is an air ...
SEVEN PLAYS (587 pp.) — Bertolt Brecht—Grove ($8.50). Most major playwrights leave an unmistakable identifying mark on their work. It may be smaller than theme or plot or character; often it is apt to ...
All we need is radio drama! Fort Greene’s Irondale Center is launching its first ever radio play with an adaptation of the 1939 “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertolt Brecht Thursday. The ...
Even so, they add, the Brecht legacy is shaky, as a result of problems that have nothing to do with Mr. Fuegi’s book. Broadway theaters shy away from Brecht, whose plays require large casts and ...
Nestled in the cozy living room of Berkeley’s Lothlorien co-op between a brick fireplace and a bar serving wine and homemade vegan cookies, UC Berkeley students took shelter from Thursday night’s rain ...
An investigation by the FBI of writer Bertholt Brecht's ties to Communism gets hostile treatment in a play being introduced to an American audience next week. Only one performance of "The Brecht File, ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Director Kate Mendeloff”s clear brown eyes sparkle when she discusses playwrite Bertolt Brecht.