Actinghouse Productions is to present On the Seduction of Angels, an evening of Bertolt Brecht scenes, poems and songs, accompanied by the music of Kurt Weill. It will be presented between Friday and ...

In the green duffle bag I carried there was a two-volume set of the Oxford English dictionary, a pair of jeans, two t-shirts, a few pens, a Palestinian kaffiyeh, a notebook and Bertolt Brecht. When I ...

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 ...

The Poets Against the War coalition should take a page from Leese Walker and Tannis Kowalchuk's bare bones production of "10 Brecht Poems" which debuted on February 25 at HERE. It's one of the more ...

A young Bengali theatremaker’s new play brings Bertolt Brecht’s poignant poetry to the stage with a side of fresh alu posto An old woman walks into a grocery store. It’s 1934 in Germany and she knows ...

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 ...