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 ...
Despite the collapse of Communism, to which he devoted his life, Bertolt Brecht remains a great figure of 20th Century drama: the powerful playwright of “Mother Courage,” “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” ...
The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two. Show more Melvyn ...
“I felt a creative spirit the first time I walked in this house,” says Rina Welles of the 1921 Santa Monica house that was once home to renowned German playwright Bertolt Brecht. “I liked the energy.” ...
A new docudrama starring Tom Schilling revisits the life of Bertolt Brecht and how he became one of the most iconic playwrights of the 20th century. But in a #MeToo era, his style with women doesn't ...
Born in Bavaria in 1898, playwright Bertolt Brecht worked principally in what is known as epic theatre, which favours provocative narratives interspersed by debate and analysis. This new dramatic form ...
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 ...