The implicate-the-audience factor looms large in "Courage: A Political Theatre Revival," the intelligently devised, disappointingly executed new offering from the adventurous local troupe Dog & Pony D ...

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 ...

The play Caucasian Chalk Circle was written in 1944 by German playwright, Bertolt Brecht. Set in the Caucasus region (hence the name) at the end of World War II, it follows Grusha, a maid to a wealthy ...

An old woman walks into a grocery store. It’s 1934 in Germany and she knows she can’t afford everything she needs; her ...

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 ...

A naked man sits with his back to us, bent over in thought. The room’s walls are covered in black sheets of paper scribbled with mathematical equations. The numbers and forms continue all over 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 ...

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 ...

Bertolt Brecht is still celebrated worldwide today. His plays are performed in various Theaters around the world, his texts are read, the International Brecht Society publishes the Brecht Yearbook ...