Before I begin my review of Cal Poly Humboldt’s production of “The Life of Galileo,” presented by the Department of Dance, Music & Theatre in the Gist Hall Theatre that I saw on its opening night of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Baal is Bertolt Brecht’s first play, written in 1918, and in later life he had no illusions about it. Just prior to his death in 1956, he said: “I admit and I warn you—the play lacks wisdom.” What 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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A professor at Manchester University in Britain says he has uncovered the truth behind the death of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Professor Stephen Parker, an expert on ...