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 ...

The Threepenny Opera: Musical drama. Book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Kurt Weill. Directed by Susannah Martin. With Jeff Wood, Kelsey Venter, Dave Garrett, Bekka Fink, Beth Wilmurt et al.

RADNOR >> Villanova Theatre, located in Vasey Hall, Lancaster and Ithan avenues, presents “The Threepenny Opera,” beginning Wednesday at 8 p.m. and running April 26. Villanova’s reimagined production, ...

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 ...

How do you make a radio cantata about one man's non-stop, 3,600-mile, 33-hour journey take flight as an opera? It was a challenge that the Canadian director and screenwriter François Girard couldn't ...

When radio in Germany celebrates its one hundredth anniversary, there is one guest who definitely deserves to be invited to the party: Bertolt Brecht. Andreas Ströhl has written about the role that ...

Toronto, Nov. 11, 6:15pm: The stage manager at Cameron House is pacing and swearing under his breath. He has six sets from Austin musicians to get through in two hours, and the program's already ...

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.

The name Solomun is synonymous with deeply emotional dance music and transcendent DJ sets. His long-winded performances -- known for their engrossing, story-like arc -- are matched in quality only by… ...