Manyazewal explains his motivation for staging The Caucasian Chalk Circle now, saying, "During my master's degree in Germany, I had the opportunity to see a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The ...
The playwright Bertolt Brecht was born in 1898 in the ... life came to an end in 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany. Brecht fled and during this period the Nazis formally removed his ...
The Alabama Song has a history as wild as its lyrics. From Bertolt Brecht’s satirical operas in 1920s Germany to The Doors' ...
Bertolt Brecht was a theatre practitioner. He made and shaped theatre in a way that had a huge impact upon its development. Many of his ideas were so revolutionary that they changed the theatrical ...
The Brechtfest VI, a celebration of German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, returns to New Orleans this February with two nights of music, spoken word, and puppetry. Hosted at the Twilight Room at ...
In 1980, the German director Volker Schlöndorff was at a crossroads: he had just become the first German to win an ‘Oscar’ for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ for his Bertolt Brecht adaptation ...