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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All we need is radio drama! Fort Greene’s Irondale Center is launching its first ever radio play with an adaptation of the 1939 “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertolt Brecht Thursday. The ...

Timing is everything, in both life and art. And this is especially true of theatre, when we are watching shows written decades or sometimes centuries ago and they still seem to mirror recent events.

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 ...

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 ...

Born in 1898, Bertolt Brecht revolutionized German literature with his sharp intellect, practical Marxism, and rank opportunism. Plays such as Mother Courage and Her Children (1941), The Good Woman of ...

Bertolt Brecht’s poetry captured a world torn apart by war and depression. Bertolt Brecht in 1937. (AP / Fred Stein) Although far better known internationally as a playwright than as a poet, Bertolt ...