Mother Courage and Her Children is an epic piece of theatre - in all ways. It is political, musical, a parable, a lesson, a ...
The Wooster Group and Bertolt Brecht might seem like strange bedfellows, but the New York experimental troupe’s staging of “The Mother,” one of Brecht’s “learning plays,” left me wondering what took ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of theater's most chilling, sinister scenes occurs in German playwright Bertolt Brecht's "Life of Galileo." The year is 1633. Galileo has demonstrated that the Earth revolves around the sun. The ...
Readers unfamiliar with Bertolt Brecht’s life should approach the new translation of his letters warily or not at all. [1] From Brecht’s collected letters and the editors’ notes, the uninitiated are ...
Even when real differences exist between the sides, the social outcome of war rarely transforms the lives of those who bear its heaviest burden. Victors and vanquished may change places, but the ...
The fifth New Orleans BrechtFest, a tribute in song, poetry and puppetry to the writer Bertolt Brecht, returns to the Allways Lounge in New Orleans on April 1 and 2. Brecht is best known today as the ...
A little Mardi Gras, a little mirth, a little marionette? The drama won't be just in the Dome for Sunday's big game. Here's a look at what's coming up. The works of German poet and playwright Bertolt ...
The Glimmerglass Festival, in collaboration with Opera Saratoga, Finger Lakes Opera, and Seagle Festival, will present a tour of the production HAPPY END.