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“The Counterfeit Opera: A Beggar’s Opera for a Grifter’s City,” which opens the summer season at Little Island on Friday, wears its influences on its sleeve.. It draws not only from John ...
Over six intense years spanning the 1920s and 1930s, the playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill distilled the sounds and vices of Weimar Germany into half-a-dozen stage works examining ...
Merje Veski’s set for Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo simultaneously evokes deep space and the inside of a racing mind. Within this dark field, students, patrons, friends, ...
At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos. Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is set to challenge its performers and audiences, just as a once-banned ...
The Thomas Mann House, which is now a museum, survived the Palisades fire but remains closed because of smoke damage. Mann was a German Nobel laureate who fled Nazi Germany.
What do Bertolt Brecht, George Floyd, and the 1980 disco hit “Funkytown” have in common? All figure into “A Mother,” a new play adapted, very freely, from “The Mother,” Brecht’s account of a ...
Based on Beggar’s Opera, John Gay’s 18th-century play, The Threepenny Opera represents the second collaboration between left-wing avant-garde poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht and the ...
Bertolt Brecht and 20th century political theater In the 20th century, German playwright Bertolt Brecht revolutionized drama with the concept of “ epic theater .” ...
A little Mardi Gras, a little mirth, a little marionette? The drama won't be just in the Dome for Sunday's big game. Here's a look at what's coming up.