| 单词 | Brecht |
| 例句 | At one end of the table, a woman with short red hair and cat’s-eye glasses is talking about a Brecht play she’d once acted in in San Francisco, performed fully in the nude. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This production then reads as an indelicate transcription, because Brecht may be stone cold, but that doesn’t mean his work lacks spark. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Brecht was constantly rewriting his work, and I’m too restless. Specializing in Secrets and Their Dear Cost 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z Indeed, notwithstanding a notably bumpy opening stretch, I’ve never before seen a London staging of “Threepenny” that came so naturally by the sour sardonicism of this collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill from 1928. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z A panel is going to be talking about Bertolt Brecht – and another one, of course, will focus on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin. Choose March's Reading group book 2013-02-28T09:55:16Z “But,” he added, “Weill opened up an emotional landscape where suddenly you are contradicting virtually everything that Brecht wants, or believes in, in theater.” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The first play I saw in this country was Joan Littlewood's Oh What a Lovely War, a moving homage to music hall culture and Brecht, "whose work we knew well from the 30s", she explained. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z He also has experience as an actor, on film and on Broadway, where he played Mack the Knife in an ill-received and short-lived 1989 revival of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” In ‘Last Ship,’ Sting Tries to Not Steal the Spotlight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Take, for instance, “Smoke,” from after Brecht had returned to what was then the German Democratic Republic: Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The bar's presiding spirit is Mama Nadi who believes, like Brecht's Mother Courage, that as long as business is good and she avoids taking sides, she can survive the war. Review 2010-04-22T23:18:00Z Devoted to artifice, reality-bending theatrical devices and critique of political and social mores, RuPaul and 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht have surprisingly analogous roots. The epic theater of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: The surprising intellectual rigor behind TV’s most campy competition 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Soon I was directing a series of Strindberg and Brecht, and devising a play set in the world of ballroom dancing that became Strictly Ballroom. Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director 2010-10-25T21:30:00Z “This has much to do with my love for Bertolt Brecht,” the jovial 46-year-old actor said in between sips of a latte outside a Midtown cafe. Method Acting? Lars Eidinger Just Wants to ‘Become Myself’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Kurt Weill was by no means vile: he and Brecht were committed leftists. Galliano's views have nothing to do with Nazi chic 2011-03-02T09:30:00Z She often worked with Milan theater director Giorgio Strehler, who directed her in one of Brecht’s signature works, “The Threepenny Opera,” a musical drama. ‘Indominable’: Milva, beloved Italian singer, dies at 81 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, the Landaus started the American Film Theater, which invited viewers to subscribe to regular screenings of movie versions of works by Eugène Ionesco, Bertolt Brecht, Edward Albee and others. Edie Landau, Film Producer Who Was Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Brecht's first impulse, in Haley's account, was to "toady" to the German State by giving public support to the brutal Soviet suppression of the strikes. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z As part of his research for the role, Goodman visited Brecht's former home in Berlin. Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z There is also a statue of Brecht but the real monument is, of course, his theater. Read Your Way Through Berlin 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z From the Greeks to Shakespeare and Brecht the theater has a long if irregular history of morality plays. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z Brecht's socialist message was that productivity of the workers should trump wealth and privilege, and resources should be shared by those who will do the most with them. Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z But Brecht’s warning about the dangers of unlimited power remained — and not just in the coda, during which planted actors rose from the audience to sing about revolution. A Golden Team, a Terrible Title and a Show That Vanished 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Parker accepts Fuegi’s revelations about their crucial role in Brecht’s oeuvre but does his best to minimize it as “female support.” Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht But he was best known as the unknown 20-something who made Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s anticapitalist satire one of the most successful musicals in New York theater history. Stanley Chase Dies at 87; Gave New York Macheath 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z This was a moving production that Brecht would surely appreciate. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z That urgency led Weill and Anderson to write some of their most openly heart-tugging material — a long way from the distancing ironies of Brecht. Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z This interpretation is probably cozier than what Brecht had in mind, but it has its emotional dividends. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z “Doing Brecht, you’re forced to reflect on the whole idea of how he imagined theater to be played,” Ms. de Beer said. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Owing a debt both to Bertold Brecht and origami, this is a play that should offer an entertaining take on futures and sub-prime markets, credit defaults and short selling to prove that bubbles always burst. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-08T23:05:29Z Bentley sought academic status and recognition; Brecht needed an ambassador for his work in the States. Silent Partners – review 2013-07-02T18:34:58Z Bertolt Brecht, the grandfather of theater criticism, believed the playwright should use gestural language to compel the actor to conform to the playwright’s idea of how the play should be acted. How designers compress ideas to their essence 2012-07-17T00:00:00Z He was later a founder of the Haifa Municipal Theater, where his roles included Petruchio in Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” Azdak in Brecht’s “Caucasian Chalk Circle” and Jean in Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros.” Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z For all its dry precision Brecht’s language in works like this retains poetic dignity. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z And with the Industry, an avant-garde opera company in Los Angeles, he workshopped an adaptation of Brecht’s “Life of Galileo.” One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The book opens with the first encounter between Brecht and Weill, on March 24, 1927, in a Berlin restaurant. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z With “The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht,” the translators Tom Kuhn and David Constantine invite English-speaking readers to discover Brecht the poet. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z He earned his doctorate under Hans Mayer from the Free University of Berlin in the early 1970s; his thesis was on the socialist drama of Berthold Brecht. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The spark of revolution, that is — though Brecht pioneered the Lehrstück, or “learning play,” his aim wasn’t just to educate but to incite audiences to make change in their society. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet Brecht’s portrait of a resistible rise of a tyrant has proved irresistible to directors in recent years, as a new spirit of nationalism spreads through the Western world. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Brecht and his theories made all the running, both aesthetically and politically, chiming with the British leftwing puritan tradition, resulting in productions that were bare, cool, politically explicit. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z Brecht’s writings are hardly renowned for their rosy views of human nature. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z Mr. Doyle’s impressive if problematic “Caucasian Chalk Circle” almost out-Brechts Brecht in its accentuation of the play as dramatic artifact, and the actor as a creative worker more than a representative of character. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z With the Nazis in power, Weill, who was Jewish, and Brecht, a Marxist with a Jewish wife, fled Germany. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Under its artistic director, Carey Perloff, the American Conservatory Theater here has been active in keeping Brecht’s work before the public. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z His program notes for “Lohengrin” even use a Brecht poem, “In Praise of Doubt,” as an epigraph. Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Erivo started performing at age 11 — she began not only young, but serious, in Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle.” The Actress Cynthia Erivo Rises With ‘The Color Purple’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Brecht and Weill had achieved their aim of making an opera for the masses – "music is no longer a matter for the few" said Weill. The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin in the 20s 2013-03-18T15:12:00Z Unfortunately, this chic-looking but pallid staging of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s scabrous musical drama is also pretty toothless. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z The song was actually derived from “Mack the Knife” from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” Rubén Blades, a Salsa Legend, Swings in a Different Direction: Jazz 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z She did her training as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1955-57, and made her professional stage debut in Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" in 1957. Diana Rigg, star of "The Avengers" and "Game of Thrones," dies at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z “I am working behind Bertolt Brecht’s wooden production desk!” said Barrie Kosky, the production’s Australian director, with some astonishment. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Germany has been influencing our set designers ever since Brecht's Berliner Ensemble changed the face of British theatre in the 1950s. The artists' artist: set designers 2011-07-20T21:31:01Z That sense of resonance also gives lingering power to the miniatures that Brecht penned throughout his career. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z And, although one could hardly have an artist further removed from Hitchcock, Brecht also grasped that prior knowledge allows an audience to focus on the rationale behind an action. Michael Billington on giving away the plot 2011-04-03T21:01:01Z Marcin grew up romanticizing the film, and now putting adults in the roles is stagey, like Brecht’s version of the movie, forcing this dissociative split between the two. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Brecht and Weill intended the opera as a socialist screed and a Nazi-sparked riot broke out at its premiere in Leipzig. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Like Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” “Chalk Circle” weaves motherhood into politics and the brutality of war. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Brecht, whose classic works include "The Threepenny Opera," co-written with Kurt Weil, and "Mother Courage and Her Children," wrote the play while in exile himself in America. Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z This production, directed and adapted by Jim Niesen, using John Willett’s classic translation, captures some of the spirit of Brecht’s cynical war fable but none of the philosophical or political heft. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z This year was meant to be something of a Kurt Weill festival in Berlin, the city that shaped — and was shaped by — his partnership with Bertolt Brecht. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Musically, the opera is indebted to Kurt Weill, Brecht’s collaborator on similar works, including “The Threepenny Opera” and “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Returns With Its Brazen Politics Intact 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z When he moved from Taiwan to the US in 1979 to study theatre, he says he was struck by the differing emphasis of Brecht, Tennessee Williams and other western dramatic heavyweights. Life of Pi's global vision 2013-01-08T17:09:37Z “The answer was ‘no,’ or ‘yes, a friend of Brecht,’” Mr. Markworth said. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z He followed with his own towering performance in Brecht's The Life of Galileo, an obscure Polish play, and a new play, To Scotland With Rhubarb, by the poet George Bruce. Tom Fleming obituary 2010-04-20T18:08:00Z Brecht’s most famous technique, the alienation effect, is a push and pull between emotional involvement and critical reflection that is often achieved through ironic or metatheatrical means. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Capalbo set his sights on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “Threepenny Opera” after hearing Leonard Bernstein conduct a concert version with a new translation by Marc Blitzstein in 1952. Carmen Capalbo, Theater Director, Dies at 84 2010-03-17T05:04:00Z Drawing on European influences such as Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, it marked a complete break from his musical past. Gavin Friday: 'You can't be what you were' 2010-03-25T22:10:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian "What is robbing a bank compared to founding a bank?" asks Brecht in The Threepenny Opera. Fear – theatre review 2012-06-26T18:00:01Z In Ivo van Hove’s new Salzburg Festival production, that scene is far more explicit than anything Brecht could have gotten away with. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z He has been praised and dissed for riffing wild on venerable works, like Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” and Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” with what usually registers more as hellbent madness than discernible method. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z In January, Kosky said, “If Bertolt Brecht had asked another composer to do the music, we would probably have a much drier, easier piece to understand.” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Brecht always intended his satire about the ruthless ascension of a Chicago mobster to be performed on an American stage. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Despite the complex plot, “Indecent” has been shaped by its creators with unusual finesse, using techniques associated with Brecht. Review: ‘Indecent’ Revisits a Play Colliding With Broadway Mores and More 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The couple loved travel, books, plays, music — their friends included George Gershwin, Arturo Toscanini, Marian Anderson, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht — and especially climbing in the Alps. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z You may recognize Sheppard as Mack the Knife from Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera,” but with a few significant alterations: Jack is now transgender, and his London is no longer exclusively white and straight. Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Under previous artistic directors, the Berliner Ensemble had developed a reputation for traditional, even worshipful, presentations of Brecht’s plays. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Swados, who died in January at 64, composed scores for Brecht and Euripides plays. Meryl Streep, Diane Lane and Others on the Legacy of Elizabeth Swados 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Eliminating the prologue, a Soviet-set discussion of the ethics of land use that is often excised, Mr. Doyle places Brecht’s dovetailing stories of endurance in an unspecified contemporary context. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z While "Hauptmann's intelligent presence behind the typewriter" was essential, she writes, "Brecht was undoubtedly in command of the creative process." 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s like a documentary made by Brecht – you’re staging something to flush out a reaction in the audience, and that reaction is one of utter horror. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Its main point of interest, however, is that it was partly written by one Bert Brecht, as he’s charmingly called in the opening credits. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z Tom Riis Farrell brings a robustly clownish enthusiasm to his characters, at one point amiably urging the audience to join in a couple of activities to "help make Bertolt Brecht proud." Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z And, meanwhile, she seems to take herself so oddly seriously, the way she talks about her music in the third person, like she's Brecht or something. Joanna Newsom: 'Is it time for a glass of wine?' 2010-05-09T20:30:00Z Shine uses all the now-standard "epic" devices that playwright Brecht pioneered to crash the "fourth wall" between artifice and commentary: the actors talking directly to the crowd. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z Discomfort, indeed, has become his weapon of choice; like Bertolt Brecht reincarnate, Louis and his writing are often in combat with the bourgeois audience that has embraced and elevated him. Édouard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Placed in the context of global upheaval, Brecht’s behavior isn’t admirable, but it’s understandable. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht The influence of Bertolt Brecht can be detected in such moments as when an SS officer steps on Rudy's horn-rimmed glasses, symbol of the intelligentsia, before taking more violent measures. 'Bent' exhibits enduring power of love, courage and identity 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The men ultimately had divergent artistic and political goals: Weill sought to make opera a popular art form, Katz says, while Brecht wanted his plays to precipitate political change. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z When she started staging Shakespeare and Brecht here more than two decades ago for audiences on the margins of society, the troupe’s founder, Michelle Hensley, didn’t think she was doing anything revolutionary. Theater Troupe Gives Those on the Margins a Front-Row Seat 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z He is a classically trained actor who has logged starring roles in productions of Brecht and Shakespeare. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Brecht’s experimental theatrical style, as both a writer and director, felt perfectly suited to Hora, as did the mother-and-child plot of “Chalk Circle.” At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The Oxford scholars David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have undertaken the translation of Brecht’s entire oeuvre, beginning with this volume of seventy-eight love poems, written between 1918 and 1955. Books to Watch Out For: November 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z In Berlin in the 1920s, Reiniger was part of an international circle of artists and intellectuals that included Bertolt Brecht and Jean Renoir. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Also in London, the Steam Industry's free summer season of theatre at the Scoop begins on Thursday and includes two contrasting pieces, Around the World in 80 Days and Brecht's The Mother. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-07-29T16:45:04Z The story would now take place in a television studio where the Brecht play is being readied for broadcast. A Golden Team, a Terrible Title and a Show That Vanished 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Writing in Saturday Review, however, Henry Hewes declared, “What they have done with Brecht’s 1947 version of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ is incredible and enormous.” Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z "I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht," Kirk said. 'Animal Practice': An interview with TV series star Justin Kirk 2012-09-20T19:52:03Z Brecht used this as a metaphor for a misguided society. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The evolving relevance of Brecht’s works speaks to those still devoted to preserving his legacy and acknowledging that he created new possibilities for theater to educate and provoke audiences. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z “My wife recently read me a Bertolt Brecht quote,” Farrar said, referring to the German playwright and poet who was forced to flee his country during Nazi rule. Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In reworking Gay’s original operetta of the dispossessed for angry Weimar Germany, Brecht and Weill pushed the era a hundred years forward, from London in the 18th century to the time of Queen Victoria’s coronation. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z After a difficult period of exile in the United States that lasted much of the 1940s, Bertolt Brecht was ready to work with kindred spirits again. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z He wanted his plays to “knock them into shape,” Brecht wrote. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Often described as the Chinese Hamlet, it reminds me more of the luminous parables of Brecht, who surely borrowed aspects of it in creating The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z Weill and Brecht demand — and deserve — a particular world of movement invention, something severe and strange, with an unmistakable point of view. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater 2012-02-11T00:40:27Z Bertolt Brecht wrote of a single brick proving how nicely a house once stood. Loss haunts the gay Arab San Franciscan at the heart of Rabih Alameddine's new novel, 'Angel of History' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z In 1957, as a Fulbright scholar, she studied with Wigman in Germany and was strongly influenced by the work of Bertolt Brecht. Beverly Blossom, Solo Dancer With a ‘Voice,’ Dies at 88 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Wright’s survivors include her husband, the poet Forrest Gander, with whom she ran Lost Roads Press, a publisher of poetry and fiction, for many years; their son, Brecht; and a brother, Warren Wright. C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z But it is worth noting — as this book does — that Weill, after settling in America and breaking with Brecht, would enjoy successful collaborations with the most distinguished playwrights and lyricists on Broadway. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z So preaches Bertolt Brecht in his play “Mother Courage and Her Children,” a new adaptation of which is now running as part of Irondale Ensemble’s Brecht in Exile series. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The piece, which remains unpublished, needs to be put up again, if only because Shange unearths Brecht’s humor while adding a lot of her own. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Brecht’s play concentrates on the conflict between Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church, which was determined that he recant his discoveries about the universe. The Week Ahead: Jan. 29 ? Feb. 4 2012-01-29T07:30:11Z The production opens on Christmas Eve, and is expected to run for three months at the Bertolt Brecht Theater. Bringing 'Rent' to Cuba 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Brian Kulick, the artistic director of the Classic Stage Company and the director of this lucid if pallid revival, settled on Mr. Laughton’s eminently playable version, ignoring Brecht’s further revisions. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z That experience also brought him to the attention of the secret police, since the troupe’s repertory included works by Brecht and Arthur Miller. ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z As a theater student, he saw the Bertolt Brecht play “Galileo” and it triggered an idea about a person who does a good deed, has a quick ascent and even quicker descent. Asghar Farhadi’s new film grapples with the idea of heroes 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z But after he fled Hitler’s Germany, Brecht eventually settled in the United States and revised the play in collaboration with Charles Laughton for a production in Los Angeles and later on Broadway. The Week Ahead: Jan. 29 ? Feb. 4 2012-01-29T07:30:11Z The experimental theater troupe names a goat Bertolt Brecht. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Published in what was East Germany, War Primer used second world war photographs, mostly from Life magazine, and accompanied each one with a short rhyming epigram, by Brecht, as comment and counterpoint. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z In both you saw an anguished liberal confronting a downright radical: Horvath and Brecht in the first play, LBJ and Martin Luther King in the second. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z Michael Feingold of the Village Voice has translated several works by Bertolt Brecht and has plays of his own. Why don't playwrights write theatre reviews? | David Cote 2010-03-30T11:38:00Z Christopher Isherwood, Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht and other luminaires have cameos, and in their absence one or another Mann is sure to pick up the slack. Review | Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ imagines the adventurous life of a literary great 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z In June an uprising of about one million East Germans had been brutally suppressed by a regime Brecht had fought for, and continued to defend publicly. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But by turning to naturalism, he undercuts his original, still-present concept of a California history pageant à la Brecht — especially because the Brechtian set design, by David Gropman, is nearly unchanged. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He swerved between hummable melody and chromatic barrage, not striving for the toe-tapping immediacy of Brecht’s best remembered musical collaborator, Kurt Weill. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “But we have populists strutting the stage. We have fascism. We have war in Europe. Brecht could comment on those in urgent and insistent ways.” At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Lloyd lit up when I asked him about those who did make it out: Brecht, Schoenberg, Feuchtwanger, and the other émigrés. The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Then, it was a series on the east German composer and Brecht collaborator Hanns Eisler, performed with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Chamber Singers. What I'm thinking about ... conducting Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 2013-03-06T13:28:05Z From the age of 14 I was in a youth theatre that toured obscure works by Brecht adapted to be searing commentaries on the miners' strike that was going on around us. 100% arts funding cut? This Newcastle budget is an act of vandalism 2012-12-18T15:45:01Z At the end of 2015, she made headlines when she dropped out of the Classic Stage Company production of Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children” during previews. Tonya Pinkins: A story of gun violence and a mother's loss brings this Tony winner back to the stage 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z That’s the title of a movie that Bertolt Brecht thought up when he was exiled in Hollywood in the 1940s. ‘Last Christmas’ Review: Ho, Ho, Humbug 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian What is the secret of Brecht's survival? The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z Brecht’s theater was a reaction against naturalism, but his plays have no force if they do not bring us into a confrontation with the brute truths of human behavior. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z “You’re seeing a great movement to put language learning online or on a disk, without a teacher,” said Richard Brecht, the center’s executive director. What’s the secret to learning a second language? 2012-10-27T12:30:00Z Hall wasn’t a theorist like Bertolt Brecht and didn’t set down his vision of directing in a book that had the impact of Brook’s “The Empty Space.” Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But all sorts of playwrights throughout the ages, as different as Brecht and Thornton Wilder, have adapted choruses to their own latter-day purposes. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z There are of course many historical precedents: Brecht’s theater of protest in Weimar Germany and Athol Fugard’s dramas that dared to cross and obliterate racial boundaries in apartheid-era South Africa. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Political Theater Feels Truly Dangerous 2011-01-12T23:37:21Z Brecht died in East Berlin in 1956 at 58, leaving behind an enormous theatrical legacy. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z She has a winningly ribald rapport with the Cook, in particular, even if the vibrant Mr. Thompson, a brilliant and natural Shakespearean, is not as clearly a natural for the stylizations of Brecht. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z In 1945 a successful Broadway director and former student of Bertolt Brecht arrived at MGM to make his first Hollywood film. ‘Crime Does Not Pay: The Complete Shorts Collection’ on DVD 2012-07-20T22:24:27Z Some of Brecht’s greatest plays were written in exile, but they would not be performed in his homeland until the 1950s. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht I got into it in a roundabout way, coalescing on a lot of references to Bertolt Brecht. In His LAAB Experiment, Ronald Wimberly Plays with Dynamite 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z There's a chance that it all gelled, but after sitting thorough the director's last two intellectual but static Brecht stagings, I have my doubts. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Her aesthetic embrace is wide, finding room for Ionesco, Chekhov, Brecht and the painter Edward Hopper. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Parker clearly shares this opinion, which leads to a frustrating disinclination to explore the nature of these collaborations beyond such passing comments as “dramatic composition was an eminently social activity for Brecht.” Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Brecht gave a helping hand to any actor portraying the title role by writing most of the other ones colorlessly. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z For many, Weill’s score remains the soundtrack of its era, while Brecht’s portrait of a corrupt society captures the spirit of Berlin on the edge of an abyss. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z After a brief spell as a medical student, Pitt became a member of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble theatre company. Ingrid Pitt obituary 2010-11-24T14:40:00Z A map to the homes of Angeleno authors might also guide you to the bungalow where Bertolt Brecht penned one of his greatest plays, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle.” Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Where Brecht rejected emotional catharsis as an impediment to action, however, much of the self-aware snark in “Urinetown” works at cross-purposes. A little song, a little snark in a pay-what-you-want production of 'Urinetown' 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Most recently Mr. Gordon’s explorations led him to two theatrical ancestors in particular: Brecht and Ionesco, and consequently to Luigi Pirandello, whose work influenced them. David Gordon Has a New Work, ‘Beginning of the End of the ’ 2012-05-31T21:42:49Z Parker again provides context for Brecht’s often distasteful actions in the postwar years. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht The more than 1,000 entries — some published for the first time in English — are only about half of Brecht’s lyric output. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z "It's difficult in Berlin because we don't have a lot of home-grown entertainment like this. It's usually more like the Brecht Theatre," said Busch, the actress. 'Beyond the Horizon' healing wounds of a divided Germany with pop rock 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Before he became the pickpocket and prison escapee immortalized as Mack the Knife in Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera,” Jack Sheppard was a nervous kid trying to talk to a sex worker at a pub. “Confessions of the Fox” Is a Cunning Metafiction of Vulpine Versatility 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z With the Nazis’ rise to power, the Brecht family left Germany in 1933 on an odyssey that took them to Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the Soviet Union before they settled in Los Angeles. Barbara Brecht-Schall, Guardian of Father’s Plays, Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “In the Blood” also has a touch of Brecht’s theater of alienation, with its use of projected titles and isolated monologues of self-justification. Review: ‘In the Blood’ and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The results are nowhere as bad as Brecht feared. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z Translating Brecht is no easy task, especially in the early rhyming poems that borrow their form from Dante and Shakespeare. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z His small role in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children” in 1963 proved crucial to his career. Gene Wilder, actor known for nimble comic portrayals of neurotics, dies at 83 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, of Brecht's A Life of Galileo opened to strong reviews at the RSC's Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z Occasionally, this leads her to imagine or embroider encounters for which she supplies no record, like Brecht and Weill’s farewell on the streets of Paris. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z On his way out of Paris, he once told me, he took a score from the vicomtesse: a copy of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Der Jasager,” with an inscription by Weill. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z He analyzes them as products of Brecht’s preoccupations, in particular a struggle to gain control of his overwhelming emotions by cultivating intellectual clarity and ironic distance. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht It was era of Otto Dix, Bertolt Brecht, the Bauhaus group, Arnold Schoenberg and a new, expressionist tendency in cinema. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z When it moved off-Broadway, the hourlong work was augmented by a cabaret act performed by Durang and Weaver, "Das Lusitania Songspiel," which parodied plays and movies in the style of Bertolt Brecht. Sigourney Weaver having a ball as a 'peacock' 2013-04-26T11:43:10Z In between his Brecht outings, Goodman for his role as Arthur Winslow in Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy at the Old Vic in the spring. Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z Once Brecht settled with his family on the island of Fünen, in Denmark, he set to work in a whitewashed stable. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z As he writes in a program note, “We feel this earlier version constitutes what Brecht was most interested in communicating to an audience of Americans at the dawn of the nuclear age.” Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z George Brecht is represented by a printed exit sign, not a sculpture; Yves Klein by documentation of his famous leap. Art in Review: ‘Specific Objects’ 2013-07-04T23:38:57Z “But it can be the thing that led that person to the barricade. That’s what Brecht said, too: Art is a catalyst for change.” Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The translators’ work becomes easier after this initial period in Brecht’s life. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Brecht is easiest to identify, featuring Terry addressing the audience directly, illuminated by clinical strip lighting. Five Truths brings new clarity to Ophelia's demise 2011-07-21T10:35:22Z That same year came Leiber and Stoller's last great song, Is That All There Is?, a masterpiece of ennui in the style of Brecht and Weill, inspired by a Thomas Mann short story. Jerry Leiber obituary 2011-08-23T17:58:52Z In “Marat/Sade,” Brook synthesized the revolutionary influences of Brecht and Artaud in a groundbreaking production that, like his sublimely craggy “Lear” with Scofield, has had a second life on film. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z According to Brecht’s journals, Lang broached the idea for the film while the two men were sunbathing on a Santa Monica beach. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z Barbara Brecht-Schall, a daughter of the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the guardian of his literary legacy, died on Monday in Berlin. Barbara Brecht-Schall, Guardian of Father’s Plays, Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Nearby, an employee showed a customer to the Brecht section, saying, loudly, “If it ain’t Brecht, don’t fix it!” Is It Curtains for the Drama Book Shop? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z RogersVice-president, Equity • In his learning plays, Brecht asks us "expressly to discover that what happens all the time is not natural". Letters: Halt this savage attack on the arts 2012-12-16T17:59:02Z In the past few days, for example, people coming to hear Sibelius’s “The Tempest” have been greeted with George Brecht’s “Drip Music” outside before taking their seats. What Happens When Fluxus Enters the Concert Hall? 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z There is a long history of theater writers, such as Bertolt Brecht and Harold Pinter, dipping their toes into audio fiction. Audible Creates $5 Million Fund for Emerging Playwrights 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The title is lifted from a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z And it goes further back, to the teenage Warchus discovering a passion for theatre as he encountered Brecht and Beckett and improvised work, although went to see Andrew Lloyd Webber shows for his birthday treats. Matilda: Thank heaven for little girls 2010-12-27T22:00:00Z This is her first time appearing in a Brecht play, though she studied him in high school and in college. Kecia Lewis to Step Into Role of Mother Courage at Classic Stage Company 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z It all seems suited to the vision of Weill and particularly Brecht, who was constantly pushing the boundaries of theater and how it can change culture. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Mee contends that all playwrights are pillagers, from Shakespeare to Brecht. The remix's the thing: how The Rest Is Silence gave Hamlet a fresh beat 2012-06-18T13:51:55Z He’d also like to write about his craft in the tradition of some of his favorite directors, including Bertolt Brecht, whose book “On Theatre” influenced him greatly as a young man. MacArthur fellow Yuval Sharon: Opera's man of the moment on how he will use his $625,000 award 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z We think of Brecht and “Threepenny Opera” — well, he was a poet. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z Brecht espoused the use of well-worn, specific props — a knife is a knife, a table a table, a chair a chair. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z It is built around an audio recording of testimony by the playwright Bertolt Brecht before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington in 1947. Art In Review: PER-OSKAR LEU: ?Crisis and Critique? 2012-02-16T22:48:15Z Bertolt Brecht spent the summer of 1953 in his holiday home by a lake halfway between Berlin and the Polish border. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Brecht got wind of Noh, and he too wrote Noh-style plays, two of which were turned into short radio operas by Kurt Weill. Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z One could regard Brecht’s complicated relationship to sexual expression and code switching with sympathy. The epic theater of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: The surprising intellectual rigor behind TV’s most campy competition 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z But he added that, despite surface similarities to other music of the period — such as Brecht and Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” — each piece by Dessau bears the imprint of this composer’s strangeness. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Focusing on Brecht’s personal struggles, Parker locates the source of his driving ambition in his youth in provincial Augsburg, Germany. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht As Brecht’s Galileo comments, “Unhappy the land that needs heroes.” A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem, “The Solution,” in which he satirized the East German government, wondering whether it should “dissolve the people and / Elect another?” 2019 Oscar Nominations and Predictions (And Who Should Have Made the List) 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Many know Brecht as a playwright, but this substantial collection invites readers to discover another side of him. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z A wily survivor uninterested in moral purity, Brecht was willing to compromise politically but not artistically. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht “By the time the thing was over, I was thinking, this is kind of very Fellini-ish, with the themes and characters,” said Mr. St. Michaels, who has both “Diff’rent Strokes” and Brecht on his résumé. ‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage doesn’t fit the mold of a conventional heroine, or even the mold of a conventional antiheroine. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z One of the lines Brecht contributed to the script — “Since the people are displeased by the government, the people must be replaced” — was so tart and telling that the film’s financiers cut it. Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock's Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur 2012-05-26T23:41:42Z As for the actors: How can they be critiqued when Brecht wrote an unsentimental play with characters who aren’t meant to be empathized with, who don’t appeal to our hearts but our minds? ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The show, first produced in Germany in 1932, was inspired by a 1906 Russian novel by Maxim Gorky and Brecht conceived it as a “learning play.” Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again in the Name of Revolution 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z "White Cube" by Belgian artist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke is not your average comic book. Prankster 'White Cube' comic gleefully dismembers the art world 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Like Brecht, Weill and Schoenberg, Hindemith's flight eventually took him to America. The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin in the 20s 2013-03-18T15:12:00Z Schulz created in Charlie Brown “a man who reflects about his part,” as Benjamin writes of the actor in Brecht’s concept of epic theatre. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Fuegi attributed much of Brecht's dramatic production to talented, infatuated and eventually disillusioned or discarded lovers. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Bentley was a classic liberal, while Brecht was – or seemed to be – a hardline communist. Silent Partners – review 2013-07-02T18:34:58Z He introduced the Met to Weill and Brecht’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” and the Gershwins’s “Porgy and Bess,” both with enormous success. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z If this is theater, it is some weird mash-up of Bertolt Brecht and the old-fashioned tableaux vivant. National Portrait Gallery exhibit features an exploration of Latin self-identity It’s the problem he has with Brecht, whose “tremendous scenic talent” has been eclipsed by his theoretical writings. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Brecht originally wrote the play in Germany in the late 1930s; it was first staged in Switzerland in 1943. The Week Ahead: Jan. 29 ? Feb. 4 2012-01-29T07:30:11Z In 1980, Shange adapted Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” and I would have given anything to see that production, which starred the much missed Gloria Foster in the title role. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Tonight, the free open-air season at the Scoop near London's Tower Bridge has its press performances of Brecht's The Mother and Phil Willmott's version of Around the World in 80 Days. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-08-05T12:45:07Z As Bertolt Brecht said so well, in his “Worker’s Speech to a Doctor”: A Single Ohio Hospital Reveals All That’s Wrong With American Health Care 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Although Brecht is a landmark figure in 20th-century theater for his innovations in stage theory as much as his stage works, his plays often feel strangely stiff or stillborn when produced today. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z As a poet, Brecht could be a Marxist zealot. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z “The thought bobbed on the waves” of rhyme and meter, Brecht later said of his early output. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Highlighting its lessons makes the opera seem didactic, while Brecht and Weill’s essential masterpiece is anything but. Music Review: ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ at Manhattan School 2013-04-25T21:26:01Z The composer Paul Hindemith, who had collaborated with both Brecht and Weill, has been criticised because he managed to maintain an uneasy accommodation with Nazi Germany until he finally left in 1937. The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin in the 20s 2013-03-18T15:12:00Z Rorem would later write his own English translation under Brecht’s text, casually creating a performance edition for his students that I read in his living room; it’s begging to be published today. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The idea of a “culinary theater,” an art that feeds our baser senses and fails to engage our intellect, made Bertolt Brecht apoplectic. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Unlike most English-language productions of Brecht, this one makes sure that all the cast members stay on the same stylistic page. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Sondheim, noting that the Brecht would be chopped up by scenes set in the present, “and thus not be so relentlessly Brechtian,” rejoined the team. A Golden Team, a Terrible Title and a Show That Vanished 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, Pitt worked with the Berliner Ensemble theatre company under Helene Weigel, widow of Brecht, and secured a few small film roles in pictures including Doctor Zhivago and Where Eagles Dare. Ingrid Pitt: a career in bitesize clips 2010-11-24T16:02:00Z Brecht hovers in the background: There's no concealing that this is performance. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Would his, Brecht wondered in one of his last contributions to the genre? Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z In the 20th century, Bertolt Brecht added to this tradition. How the Syrian refugee crisis is playing out on the German stage 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Its productions of “The Brig” and “The Connection” were landmarks, as were its Brecht productions. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Brecht was like the foreman in a factory; the women made the widgets and even supplied the raw materials to make them with. Theater Review: ‘Requiem for Black Marie’ Finds Brecht Wanting 2013-06-18T21:38:19Z German writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann, fleeing Nazi Germany, are followed by refugees from the Spanish Civil War. Review | A look back at the elegant highs and the wartime lows of the French Riviera 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z There’s Brecht’s politics for starters, the unblinking zeal with which he defended Communist violence and Communist rule. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z That observation lands with a satisfying sting in the new production of “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” by Bertolt Brecht, that opened on Thursday at the Classic Stage Company. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z Later, she writes, "it was not only the magnetic pull of each other's gifts, nor the ferocity of their mutual goals, pushing Brecht and Weill together; it was the opposition from the outside world." 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Watching a noisy, frenetic production of Brecht’s “Baal” inside this space is like being inside a Jiffy Pop popcorn pan. Theater Review: Brecht’s ‘Baal,’ Hoi Polloi, at Jack in Brooklyn 2012-07-22T22:04:47Z Brecht and Weill never became friends, Katz writes, but for a while they had an unmatched chemistry. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Featuring 14 actors who rollick around and amid the audience areas and band pit, channeling 60-plus characters, the staging brightens and complements Bertolt Brecht’s all-too-relevant fable about power, self-interest, callousness and social inequality. What you should be seeing in D.C. theater this week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Before joining the Living Theater, he played roles in an Off Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “Threepenny Opera.” Steve Ben Israel, Performance Artist, Dies at 74 2012-06-17T03:10:32Z Both had been at the opening of Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera in Berlin in 1928, and remembered that to be young in the Berlin of the late 1920s was very heaven. The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin in the 20s 2013-03-18T15:12:00Z Nothing is irritatingly wrongheaded about Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s direction or choreography — cynical ambivalence about these sins is built into this 1933 ballet by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill — but nothing is remotely memorable either. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z Bertolt Brecht tells the tale of a king in the East who was pained by all the suffering in the world. The Frontman: Bono (In The Name of Power) by Harry Browne – review 2013-06-26T11:00:03Z She was nominated for a Tony for “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on Broadway, and recently played Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage” in Washington. Kathleen Turner seeks satisfaction on London stage 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Coming out of Italian neorealism and the French new wave, adapting works by Tolstoy and Pirandello and much influenced by Brecht, they emerged in the late 60s. Caesar Must Die – review 2013-03-03T00:07:05Z Later, I had enough to do in teaching European theatre at Warwick University, getting students to understand Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wedekind, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett and Artaud, without making time for Shaw. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z By all accounts, Brecht was belligerent and bossy when mounting his plays, and the "Threepenny" rehearsals were famously contentious. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “Requiem,” though, feels sketchy, as if Ms. Farrington were still working out what she wants to say about Brecht, Weimar, feminism and the sexual politics of collaboration. Theater Review: ‘Requiem for Black Marie’ Finds Brecht Wanting 2013-06-18T21:38:19Z Within five years, Brecht, Weill, Schoenberg and most of the innovators had all fled. The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin in the 20s 2013-03-18T15:12:00Z In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z And it would have been an ingenious idea for a Bertolt Brecht play, reinforcing the alienation effect the playwright sought by subtly reminding us we were watching a show. Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again in the Name of Revolution 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Nederlander Entertainment, one of the biggest theatre producers in the US, will produce the show in conjunction with Cuba's National Council of Performing Arts at Havana's Bertolt Brecht Theatre. Cuba stages first musical in 50 years 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s like Brecht always said, if you want the audience to be laughing you should be crying. James McAvoy: X-Men's Professor X Is "Mental" 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z My north star, my guide, is a poem by Bertolt Brecht. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z The title of the “Domestic Breviary” is borrowed from Lutheran and Catholic manuals, with Brecht’s didactic energy turned toward exposing a world in which human suffering is man-made and unredeemed. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Like much of Brecht, this willfully alienating work has proved hard for Americans to conquer. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z Published as a book, War Primer 2 is a powerful rereading of Brecht's East German original in the light of recent history. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z And in “Changing the wheel,” part of those late “Buckow Elegies,” Brecht seems to question to what extent his lifelong drive for social change is an expression of a much deeper and personal restlessness: Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z At Rose Bruford, she studied Ibsen and Brecht but lacked self-discipline. Kerry Godliman: 'We're cracking up on stage for your entertainment' 2013-04-27T23:05:02Z George Brecht, artist and founding member of Fluxus, came up with the “Event Score” format, and we used it for a proposed action performed like music on a concert program. Alison Knowles on How to Make a Salad and Other Fluxus Events 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Adam Benzwi, the American conductor who is the production’s music director, said he felt a definite tension between the critical distance that Brecht’s text invites and the emotional immediacy of Weill’s songs. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z But you don't have be an expert on the Third Reich to get Brecht's key point: that over-reaching power is always resistible. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z British scholar Stephen Parker’s new biography replaces the monster of “Brecht & Co.” with a recognizable human. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Without knowing much about him, I'd always assumed that Brecht had sided with the angels. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z But in this comparatively benevolent Brecht play, humans cannot always be counted on to act in accordance with self-interest. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z Bertolt Brecht used to rail against the culinary theater, a theater that delivered only emotion and sensation, rather than intellectual engagement. Immersed in ‘Stranger Things,’ Then Strolling to Beckett 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “The Threepenny Opera” premiered in 1928 in Berlin and was performed thousands of times across Europe in several languages before Weill and Brecht fled Germany in 1933 as the Nazis seized power. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The family returned to Berlin after Brecht was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947. Barbara Brecht-Schall, Guardian of Father’s Plays, Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish philosopher, essayist and cultural critic, spent the better part of his professional life planning for what he described to his friend Bertolt Brecht as “the demolition of Heidegger.” The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z At times, his gloomy visuals, with their militaristic constituents, seem to try to reconfigure the piece along the lines of a Brecht/Weill satire. The Love for Three Oranges 2010-06-18T22:40:00Z His collaborator was his difficult close friend, playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, then living in Santa Monica in a very bad mood. Eisler's 'Hollywood Songbook' comes home, bad mood and all 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Bertolt Brecht’s question — who is a bigger criminal, a bank owner or a bank robber? — applies directly to the world of Bernie Madoff and predatory institutions that are too big to fail. Music Review: Ute Lemper in Cabaret at 54 Below 2013-08-16T21:25:50Z Ms. Vaughn, the adventurous director of the school’s opera programs, also led a sobering revival of Weill and Brecht’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” in April. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z In due course, several of the Frankfurters moved to Los Angeles and joined a community of German exiles there that included playwright Bertolt Brecht, film director Fritz Lang and novelist Thomas Mann. ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’: Life among the original anti-consumerists 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The relationship between Weill and Brecht — the latter of whom managed to wangle the lion's share of "Threepenny" royalties — only deteriorated from there. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In Berlin, along with the German director Erwin Piscator, Brecht created what became known as “epic theater,” or “dialectical theater,” which asked audiences to confront sociopolitical issues rather than suspend disbelief and be swept away. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z “I met him when my late wife Anne Bancroft was doing ‘Mother Courage,’ a Bertolt Brecht play, and Gene was in it,” Brooks began. Mel Brooks mourns Gene Wilder on “The Tonight Show”: “He was such a wonderful part of my life” 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But that's how art works on one, and it's true of supposedly didactic artists like Brecht and Shaw. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z It’s unfortunate that Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 parable on fascism always feels relevant. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z What she ended up with is a mother-daughter story that, like a Brecht play or a Fassbinder melodrama, achieves its emotional force through indirection and distance. Lip-Syncing the Realities of a Tragic Life 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z He also watched the same movies that had inspired Brecht, such as the original Scarface and Charlie Chaplin's anti-Nazi satire The Great Dictator. Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z And all of these follow on the heels of at least another half-dozen magisterial biographies published in the past two decades, including Martin Brecht’s exhaustive three-volume masterpiece, “Martin Luther,” which Metaxas praises as “unsurpassable.” Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “Brecht was happy when the youngest character in one of his plays was played by an old person,” Mr. Lenhard said. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z But you soon forget that, because Brecht was writing as much about the present as the past. A Life of Galileo – review 2013-02-13T16:52:00Z I like to imagine Brecht and his friends in a Berlin café, their conversation blending with dozens of others. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Brecht’s drama about the conflict between champions of progress and the church in Renaissance Italy was first written in 1938 in Germany, where the rise of the Nazi party had obliterated free expression. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z “The radio is on every evening and contact with the world has been reestablished,” Brecht wrote. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Just how exploitative Brecht was, as a man and an artist, remains an unsettled question. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In his first major role on Broadway, Mr. Wilder played the chaplain in a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children.” Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Milva also starred as a stage actress, with a repertoire heavily based on the works of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. ‘Indominable’: Milva, beloved Italian singer, dies at 81 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Unfortunately Brecht and Weill need not worry about being upstaged by either. Carl Bar?t: Carl Bar?t 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z As a playwright and director, Bertolt Brecht revolutionized theater, dragging 20th-century politics into the room and swapping escapism for urgent and timely themes played out almost in the laps of audience members. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Some other related concepts to the Oblique Strategies were the Fluxus movement’s fanciful and inventive “Fluxkits” and Fluxus boxes—one particularly inspired example of these boxes, by George Brecht, was called the “water yam” box. Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies: the famous deck of cards behind "Another Green World" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Brecht’s “Radio Poem” expresses the attachment he felt to his native tongue, even when those speaking it had forced him into exile. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He patronizingly describes Hauptmann as “an outstanding literary secretary” and claims that she “always acknowledged that Brecht was the presiding genius.” Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht “Or is it a biting anticapitalist satire, as Brecht retrospectively claimed? And what is chief, the text or the music?” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z For more serious theatregoers there's Bertolt Brecht's The Mother, concerning a woman who finds herself drawn by her son into questioning the status quo and joining street protests. This week's new theatre 2011-07-29T23:06:00Z He was referring to the premiere, the night before, of Balanchine’s “Seven Deadly Sins,” with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil’s libretto and score. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Brecht’s own family story and life in the theater reads like a drama. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z “It is an invitation to think. He’s a poet. He’s a political author but not a politician. And that is why Brecht will always have a future.” At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Are they under the influence of Brecht or the seven dwarves? Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z A news release cheekily refers to his “collaborative adventures in recent years with dead artists like Brecht, Ionesco and Shakespeare.” Dance Review: ‘Beginning of the End of the ’ at Joyce SoHo 2012-06-07T21:56:16Z “What an infinitely dismal fabrication this hostage film is that I have to occupy myself with these days,” Brecht wrote in July 1942. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z And even as the cleaning women began to ready the theater, Brecht was still working to trim nearly an hour of running time. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Weill set Brecht's mordantly ironic lyrics to brilliantly simple melodies with blues, jazz and tango inflections, in a score molded for actors rather than trained singers. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z That little white house belongs to the Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Brecht wrote the play in 1941 while in exile in Finland waiting for his US visa. Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z And as Brecht’s troupe, the Berliner Ensemble, blossomed in the years that followed, he drew Dessau into more projects. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Brecht worked on a Marxist adaptation in the last years of his life. Ralph Fiennes's full-metal Coriolanus 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z In a recurring joke, the characters keep quoting the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and like Brecht, Rodrigues nudges the audience to adopt a critical perspective. Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The production is also designed by Mr. Doyle to reflect visually Brecht’s working-class sympathies. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Once again, the starting point for the project was Brecht, whose own personal bible they came across in his archive while researching War Primer 2. The Holy Bible: Broomberg and Chanarin's religious experience 2013-06-11T10:52:00Z Few operas elicit anger like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s still-ferocious 1930 satire “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,” currently being powerfully sung and acted at the Manhattan School of Music. Music Review: ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ at Manhattan School 2013-04-25T21:26:01Z Artists who have worked with the company describe her as a mother and a nurturer, a kindlier one than Bessie or Chekhov’s Arkadina or Brecht’s Mother Courage, roles she has also played. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “Green Book” won because it delivers what Brecht called a mounted messenger, which “guarantees you a truly undisturbed appreciation of even the most intolerable conditions.” Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Close listeners may also hear some Brecht in Mr. Adams’s score, played with exactitude and enthusiasm by the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The films’ source material often seemed plucked from a graduate-level syllabus, drawing from the likes of Bertolt Brecht, the novelist and literary critic Elio Vittorini and the operas of the atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg. Jean-Marie Straub, Uncompromising Filmmaker, Is Dead at 89 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z We are constantly distanced in the manner of Brecht's alienation effect, told that what we are watching is a film, but also that movies, like our lives, are halls of mirrors. 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z The main focus was on the “Hollywood Songbook” of Hanns Eisler, a student of Schoenberg’s who came to collaborate closely with Brecht when they were expatriates in wartime Hollywood. Review: Songs of Exile With Matthias Goerne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z She will be joined by Karen Kohler, a cabaret singer who will bring Mr. Weill and Mr. Brecht’s work to life with the accordionist Benjamin Ickes. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He fully merits the nuanced portrait he receives in “Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life.” Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Their collaboration is the substance of Pamela Katz’s brisk, bright and somewhat thin book, “The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink.” Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Even when deep in character, he retained an objectivity that made him seem to be assessing the scene he was in, a quality that made him a Brechtian actor long before he appeared in Brecht. Peter Nichols on Joe Melia: 'a Brechtian actor long before he appeared in Brecht' 2012-11-07T14:23:31Z Quickly, I got to Walter Benjamin, “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” and I was right back at Brecht again. In His LAAB Experiment, Ronald Wimberly Plays with Dynamite 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “Brecht is a great poet,” the translators write in their introduction, “one of the three or four best in the whole of German literature.” Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But as is often the case with Brecht’s work, the intellectual stimulation provided by the dialectics doesn’t always make up for the lack of vitally engaging theatrical drama. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z Brecht never joined the Communist Party, but he remained loyal to it for the rest of his life. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht He thought that one of Bertolt Brecht’s Lehrstücke, or teaching plays, could make a good musical, being short and pointed and fable-like. A Golden Team, a Terrible Title and a Show That Vanished 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “Baal,” Brecht’s first play, is the work of a young playwright, a sprawling yet static portrait of a dissolute poet who corrupts everything in his path. Theater Review: Brecht’s ‘Baal,’ Hoi Polloi, at Jack in Brooklyn 2012-07-22T22:04:47Z With the grown-ups in danger of selling their souls, “Wild” is partly a morality play, gesturing in the direction of Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” — and also toward Brecht, Dr. Seuss and “Urinetown.” Review: ‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ Is Finding Its Footing 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Many were Jewish and many were world-renowned figures in the arts, most notably composer Arnold Schoenberg, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann, stage and film impresario Max Reinhardt, playwright Bertolt Brecht and screen legend Marlene Dietrich. Review | Turning a spotlight on the Hollywood doyenne who gave refuge to artists fleeing Hitler 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The long list of playwrights and composers looking to Noh for inspiration includes Samuel Beckett, Harry Partch, Bertolt Brecht and Benjamin Britten. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z For decades, Germans performed almost solely a small fraction of his pre-1933 works, his collaborations with the brash poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z All this is expertly charted by Marowitz: was Brecht good, as his followers believed, insofar as he was communist – or good, as Bentley argued, insofar as he was Brecht? Silent Partners – review 2013-07-02T18:34:58Z He quoted Bertolt Brecht on Friday as a filmmaking motto: "I always thought the simplest of words will suffice. When I say what things are like, it will break the hearts of all." Ken Loach, the 79-year-old British director, has had 12 films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival over the years, including his Palme d'Or-winning "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Brecht was sincere in his desire to polemicise, but his greatness – and he would hate me for saying this – is that he can move you to terror and pity. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z He translated numerous European works for the American stage, especially those of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Michael Feingold, Forceful Drama Critic, Dies at 77 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Scena Theatre presents Bertolt Brecht’s play about the mobster who took over the Cauliflower Trust business in 1930s Chicago. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical play “The Threepenny Opera” was famously mounted in 1945 Berlin just after the war. A 'Threepenny Opera' without a sense of urgency 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But, with an accordion and a delightful taste of the lowbrow, Mr. Adams also suggests Weill and Brecht’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,” a similar opera about money, rowdiness and savagery. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Shine does, now and again, remind us with ominous sound effects that "Threepenny Opera" was the product of Brecht and Weill's anti-capitalist, anti-militarist sympathies, as Hitler's forces of darkness were on the rise. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z Brecht’s savage, sardonic view of war as a man-made machine that produces as much profit as blood glimmers darkly throughout the show. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “There is no fourth wall at the piano bar. And I don’t mean there’s no fourth wall because we are doing Brecht or something,” he cracked. Lynn Nottage wins Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z “That production was influenced by Brecht; it was about alienation, distancing,” Kail said. Who Needs a Shave? ‘Sweeney Todd’ Is Back. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Breuker also began working for the Baal theatre company, writing music for the Brecht play of the same name, and for Brecht's Drums in the Night. Willem Breuker obituary 2010-07-29T17:27:00Z In his staging, Niesen retains Brecht’s title cards, the expository bits of narrative announcing what will transpire in each of the 12 scenes in this tedious two-and-a-half-hour epic. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z But that is to miss the point about Brecht’s boldly anti-bourgeois study in alienation that attracts even as it repels: You look on appalled and in admiration, too. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Brecht probably never had a drink with a stroopwafel as garnish. Immersed in ‘Stranger Things,’ Then Strolling to Beckett 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z She survived the war and joined the Berliner Ensemble, where she worked under actress Helene Weigel, the widow of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Ingrid Pitt, doyenne of Hammer horror films, dies 2010-11-23T23:30:00Z Fuegi’s book was unnecessarily vitriolic in tone, but groundbreaking, notable for its penetrating insight into theater’s essentially collective nature — and the author’s loathing for Bertolt Brecht. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Adapted from Bertolt Brecht's intelligent, gutsy play, this film is a smart take on Galileo's life – though 45 minutes cut out of the middle would have made it smarter still. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z His other German translations include work by Bertolt Brecht; from the Russian, Mr. Heim translated several Chekhov plays, including “The Seagull,” “The Cherry Orchard” and “Uncle Vanya.” Michael Henry Heim, Literary Translator, Dies at 69 2012-10-05T14:27:19Z One of the week's big openings was in Stratford-upon-Avon, a major revival of Brecht's Life of Galileo that Michael Billington called "a timeless debate about scientific morality rendered with … pellucid swiftness". Reader reviews: your take on Sarah Silverman, Bull, and A Life of Galileo 2013-02-15T17:25:10Z Pungently bitter selections from Hanns Eisler’s “Hollywood Songbook” and “Hollywood Elegies,” with words by Brecht, provided an astringent change of pace. Review | Baritone Holger Falk makes outstanding Washington debut 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z With great skill and economy he sets the sardonic “Hollywood-Elegies” by Brecht. Review: Songs of Exile With Matthias Goerne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “The next year, I rewrote the songs to Brecht’s ‘Mother Courage.’ Tim Minchin Puts Emotion on Broadway. Just Don’t Call Him Sentimental. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It's like Chekhov and Brecht: you get the sense Chekhov nurtured his ideas, whereas Brecht was 'Try a bit of this, try a bit of that.' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z There are songs, too, as in Brecht’s original text — exegetic tunes that the characters break into — set to new music by Sam Day Harmet, who performs here with Erica Mancini and Stephen LaRosa. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Like many Brecht plays, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” can wear you down with its sometimes laborious storytelling and narration. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z Weill’s devotees will render Brecht as a brute. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The character of the populist bully, who has a penchant for both public speaking and private back-stabbing, was central in Brecht’s mind during his wartime exile. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Weill, a radio reviewer, already had praised one of Brecht's plays and was looking for works to set to music. 'The Partnership' looks anew at Brecht's creative circle 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The description for this technique is Brechtian, named for playwright Bertolt Brecht, and a term Future Lionel drops and defines both for the audience's edification and Sam's. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Doyle’s production of Brecht’s 1941 satire about the ascension of Adolf Hitler, written when the German playwright was in exile in Finland, is full of such enlivening moments of actorly glee. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “I think you don’t have to stick to the theory anymore,” he added, referring to Brecht’s stage philosophy, which despite its influence on 20th century theater is now approaching 100 years old. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z This is a stark, unsentimental vision of the play that argues, as Brecht did, that no individual is indispensable: Coriolanus ends up shot full of lead and conspicuously unmourned. Coriolan/us – review 2012-08-10T17:08:20Z Later joined by Ruth Berlau, these women wrote significant portions of “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” “The Good Person of Szechwan” and virtually every other work in the post-1924 Brecht canon. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Near the end of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella program Tuesday night, three local string quartets were arrayed on a darkened Walt Disney Concert Hall stage for George Brecht's String Quartet. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Together they ran the small, legendary Lost Roads Press and raised their son, Brecht. Postscript: C. D. Wright, 1949-2016 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z After a dangerous decade in Europe, Feuchtwanger made it to America; he soon helped Bertolt Brecht get out too. To write and die in L.A. 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z His entrée came through Eisler, who had studied with Schoenberg in Vienna and then immersed himself in radical leftist circles of the Weimar Republic, forming a partnership with Brecht. The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z When Hitler rose to power, Brecht embarked upon a fifteen-year exile from Germany, wandering through Switzerland and France before settling in Denmark. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “I felt like we had a good plan tonight for third down,” Brecht said. Iowa State runs over BYU for third straight road win 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Two years later there was a masterly performance in The Life of Galileo, Berthold Brecht's take on the life of the 17th Century Italian scientist. Obituary: Sir Michael Gambon, star of The Singing Detective and Harry Potter 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z It was, as Brecht puts it: “Painstaking and sometimes overwhelming, but gratifying in the end.” Elephant trunk’s ‘stunning’ microscopic musculature may explain its dexterity 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The jury found Dr. Kristine Brecht performed cosmetic surgeries on a patient, despite being a poor candidate, leading to “devastating” injuries, according to a news release from the patient’s attorneys. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Justin Brecht is the senior policy analyst for the Senate Republican caucus who knocked the dust off the old, forgotten law. Hard to read? Oregon GOP boycott comes down to reading level 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Pope County Chief Deputy Nathan Brecht tearfully remembered how Owen disliked paperwork but loved working the night shift — and believed law enforcement is a noble profession. Slain Minnesota deputy remembered as ‘definition of a hero’ 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z With my political background, I’m a big fan of Brecht and I love his play “The Good Person of Szechwan.” Center Theatre Group is at an inflection point. New artistic director Snehal Desai aims to 'turn the ship' 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Bertolt Brecht jots an entry into his journal about the internment of Japanese Americans. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Life Stories 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Brecht and her Burien practice, Aesthetic Rejuvenation & Spa, has been at the center of several complaints filed with the Washington Medical Commission. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Dr. Brecht and his colleagues suspect that Pang Pha, who was raised at the zoo, developed her method after watching her caretakers peel the fruit for her. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z “This man was your protector in Pope County,” Brecht said. Slain Minnesota deputy remembered as ‘definition of a hero’ 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z In the early 2000s, he taught at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., and directed plays there by Anton Chekhov, Bertolt Brecht and Eugene O’Neill. With ‘Angels in America,’ a Hungarian director puts down roots in U.S. 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Somewhere on the musical-theater periodic table between the work of Bertolt Brecht and Rodgers and Hammerstein sits “Pacific Overtures.” Review | Signature’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ is gently moving but needs more bite 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Brecht did not advise her about the risks of skin necrosis or advise her to quit smoking to ensure proper healing, according to the lawsuit. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z After zookeepers told Dr. Brecht, who studies elephant behavior and neurobiology, about Pang Pha, researchers spent weeks plying her with bananas. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In elucidating the way Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov established the foundation of modern drama, he opened minds to the revolutionary accomplishments of Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The Wooster Group and Bertolt Brecht might seem like strange bedfellows, but the New York experimental troupe’s staging of “The Mother,” one of Brecht’s “learning plays,” left me wondering what took the company so long. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Freud, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Franz Kafka and hundreds of modernist or expressionist artists were deemed decedent, depraved, deviant and degenerate. Ron DeSantis seeks control over national curriculum 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The lawsuit said Brecht also used “Cinderella Anesthesia,” a makeshift alternative to general anesthesia that combines oxycodone and lorazepam, which caused memory loss. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “We would bring always the nicest banana we could find for her, and she would just never peel it,” Dr. Brecht said. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z That has been difficult to study, according to Michael Brecht, a neuroscientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Brecht’s epic theater was born in opposition to the traditional Aristotelian formula. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z They quoted a 1940 poem by Bertolt Brecht, the German poet and playwright. ‘We’re on That Bus, Too’: In China, a Deadly Crash Triggers Covid Trauma 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Brecht cut off too much skin, the patient’s lawyers claimed, creating excessive scarring. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z That is probably because those very ripe bananas are easier to slide out of their peels, Dr. Brecht said, though there are other potential explanations, too. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z “I tend to think that the big animals are a bit neglected because we don’t do enough work on big brains,” Dr. Brecht said. It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Instead of catharsis, Brecht aimed for critical consciousness. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Also at play is one of Godard's most important influences, German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Jean-Luc Godard: Nine things about the man who remade cinema 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z When the patient started to raise concerns, Brecht told her the patient’s “unique” skin and “innate” healing issues had caused the scarring and other difficulties, according to the lawsuit. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “If she has time, she clearly prefers the banana peeled,” Dr. Brecht said. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z While his team expected both African savanna and Asian elephants to possess massive stores of facial neurons, Dr. Brecht said the discrepancy between the two species was noteworthy. It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The cause Brecht is explicitly championing is worker solidarity. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Brecht wanted his audience to remain critically engaged in his work, and so deployed a number of methods to unsettle them and remind them they are watching something artificial. Jean-Luc Godard: Nine things about the man who remade cinema 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Brecht’s license was suspended last month after a hearing found she engaged in “unprofessional misconduct” by sedating several patients, despite not being licensed to do so. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “He thought it was stupid that they that they always eat the whole banana, and he peeled the bananas always for her,” Dr. Brecht said. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z While the facial neurons may not be off the charts by comparison, Dr. Brecht believes a better understanding of these structures in elephants can provide insights into other large mammals — including humans. It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “The Mother” makes a more direct emotional appeal than Brecht’s more complex dramatic works, such as “Mother Courage and Her Children,” written several years later for a more traditional theater audience. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z When eleven “unfriendly witnesses” were called to testify before Congress about Communism in the film industry in October 1947, only playwright Bertolt Brecht answered questions. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Two years prior, the commission also found Brecht did not properly supervise her staff. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “Often,” Dr. Brecht said, “Pang Pha would peel the banana and her daughter would eat the peel.” This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Happily, thinkers like Brecht and Aristotle have made it very clear that this is not any kind of real opposition, just a matter of art being important, always, in helping us to think and feel. Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson on the Sierra and why humans might just ‘squeak by’ 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z “You kind of have to prioritize,” Brecht said. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Héctor Tobar: I think of Bertolt Brecht and all his German exile friends. Can an L.A. writer be defined? We asked L.A. writers to debate the subject 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In one case, the commission said Brecht administered opioids and medication combinations that could have harmed patients or presented interaction risks. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z What’s unique about the staging of Brecht’s play in the film is that each actor speaks in one of 10 different languages, including Korean sign language. 'Titane,' 'A Hero,' 'Drive My Car': Unconventional storytelling links international films 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Lorelied’s attorney, Christopher Brecht of Tulsa, declined to comment on Stitt’s order, noting that the litigation is still an active case. Oklahoma governor orders stop to binary birth certificates 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Iowa’s Brecht has a high ceiling in both sports. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Lorelied’s attorney, Christopher Brecht, said his client was very happy with the settlement and that he was surprised at the outrage from GOP leaders. Oklahoma GOP leaders upset over nonbinary birth certificate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The commission also found Brecht’s records in surgeries lacking, that she did not adequately monitor patients post-operation and that she improperly administered oral sedation rather than general anesthesia or intravenous sedation during operations. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Bertolt Brecht wrote after the German socialist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered. Revisiting the case of Julian Assange and the reality of the "rule of law" 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z In his book, Dylan revealed that aside from Guthrie, blues legend Robert Johnson and Pirate Jenny - a song from Brecht/Weill play with music, The Threepenny Opera - were the biggest influences on his songwriting. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Brecht, who is on a football scholarship, was projected as a high-round pick in last summer’s Major League Baseball draft, but he made it clear he wanted to play two sports for the Hawkeyes. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Brecht said his client simply wanted a birth certificate that reflected who they are. Oklahoma GOP leaders upset over nonbinary birth certificate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z During a 2019 case, Brecht performed an abdominoplasty and liposuction on a patient in her mid-50s, who the commission said was at “poor risk” for having the procedure using oral sedation. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Born and raised in New York, Steinman started his career in musical theatre, writing a score for a college production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man in 1968. Bat Out Of Hell composer Jim Steinman dies 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Brecht warned, however, that not all fruit prefer the 34-degree rule. New research may help avoid rotten feeling of mushy fruit 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Brecht’s football work in the spring is non-contact, but he does go through weight training, meetings with coaches and route running drills with the other receivers and quarterbacks. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper, Brecht was asked how the German staff he represents would benefit from the fund. Daimler Trucks labour chief wants clean tech investments in Germany 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Brecht did not obtain an adequate medical history or physical examination, according to a commission order. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s like Brechtian distance — we laugh not at the stupid character but the idea of A Stupid Character — if Brecht were an old softy who wanted to fill you with feelings. The new 'Saved by the Bell' is one of the year's best TV shows. Seriously. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Brecht said strawberries need to be cooled within an hour or two of picking them, something that sometimes isn’t done. New research may help avoid rotten feeling of mushy fruit 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Brecht has progressed well in his first season of college baseball. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z “Remember what Brecht said when asked what we should sing about in the dark times. He said sing about the dark times. Loud, lusty singing. No cowering in a parenthesis.” Review | Eighty years of memories that will stir readers’ own 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Brecht, the order said, did not offer supplemental oxygen or call an ambulance. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “Fundamentally its a good strategy, but ramping up electric mobility is problematic. We will not end up with the same number of employees,” Brecht warned. Daimler labor chief urges lawmakers to promote car charging 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Because Brecht knew almost everyone in town, she told Reuters, she contacted all affected voters and was able to help them fix their ballots. Special Report: Will your mail ballot count in the U.S. presidential election? It may depend on who's counting and where 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Brecht has been at his best the last two weeks, allowing one hit while striking out 16 in 8 1/3 innings. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Let’s do remember Brecht, but let us abide by Rosenblatt’s No. 3: We are responsible for each other. Review | Eighty years of memories that will stir readers’ own 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Brecht was placed on probation and prohibited from performing procedures requiring sedation without an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist. Patient to get $13M for ‘botched’ surgery by Burien cosmetic surgeon 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Rigg entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at 17 and made her professional debut two years later, in 1957, in Brecht’s drama “The Caucasian Chalk Circle.” Diana Rigg, Emma Peel of ‘The Avengers,’ Dies at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z She continued her work on the stage, including memorable turns in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” Diana Rigg, acclaimed actress known as ‘sexiest TV star of all time,’ dies at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Brecht’s schedule will be busy in the summer, too. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Rigg made her professional acting debut in a production of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” as part of the 1957 York Festival, according to BBC News, which first reported her death. Dame Diana Rigg, star of 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Avengers,' dead at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z She made her professional debut in a production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle as part of the 1957 York Festival. Obituary: Dame Diana Rigg 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Not only is he kind and funny, but he read a Brecht poem without a whiff of pomposity. 'He's so strapping and virile': Patrick Stewart at 80 – by Shatner, McKellen, Tennant and more 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Think of Brecht coming after World War II and even plays like “Marat/Sade” or the musical “Hair” as a tonic to a troubled age. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z “That makes a ton of sense,” Braithwaite said, adding that it would be counterproductive for an athlete in Brecht’s position to overextend himself physically. Let’s play 2: Baseball, football combo tests few who do both 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Duarte concluded quoting a play by the German writer Bertolt Brecht. Bolsonaro's silence on artists' deaths reflects disdain for Brazilian culture 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Summoning the vengeful ghost of Brecht and Weill’s Pirate Jenny into the age of Medgar Evers and George Wallace, she stuns the room into a silence punctuated only by nervous coughs. Nina Simone: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z But he received even greater acclaim for his performances on the stage, starring in revivals of classic plays including O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh,” Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” and Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo.” Brian Dennehy, gruff character actor and Tony-winning Broadway star, dies at 81 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z He appeared in Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” in 1986 and later Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” at far lower salaries than he earned in Hollywood. 'Rambo: First Blood' and 'Tommy Boy' actor Brian Dennehy dead at 81 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z I thought immediately of the tiny poem Bertolt Brecht wrote in the midst of World War II: “In the dark times/Will there be singing?/There will be singing./Of the dark times.” Livestreaming the Seattle Symphony Became a Source of Connection in Dark Times 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z She maintained close friendships with Richard Wright and Bertolt Brecht, whose work she translated. They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Brecht also did his own Marxist adaptation, staged by the Berliner Ensemble in 1964, which portrayed the downfall of “the individual who blackmails society with his indispensability”. Hail, Coriolanus! The greatness of Shakespeare's shape-shifting epic 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “I consider myself a moderate Republican, but I’m not a socialist,” Brecht said, referring to Sanders. Seeking a Sanders alternative but lukewarm on Super Tuesday choices 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z In the Brecht poem “Legend of the Unknown Soldier Beneath the Triumphal Arch,” the view was of Nazis at the Brandenburg Gate. Review: Salonen leads the L.A. Phil's Weimar festival into the raw darkness of 'Nightfall' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Phil, Los Angeles Master Chorale and a cohort of singers and actors in German Expressionist musical-theater works by Brecht/Weill and Hindemith. Classical music in L.A. this week: The L.A. Phil's 'Weimar Republic' series and more 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z At Oxford, he started the Experimental Theatre Company with his friend and contemporary Michael Rudman, performing everything from Brecht to cabaret. Terry Jones obituary 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Berg could hardly have found anything more modern among the playwrights of his own period; the young Bertolt Brecht was one of many under Büchner’s spell. Operatic Shows of Force 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z At a Buttigieg rally in Arlington this past weekend, Joseph Brecht, 21, advertised himself as the kind of voter Democrats yearn to win over. Seeking a Sanders alternative but lukewarm on Super Tuesday choices 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Then again, what did Brecht and Weill know about Louisiana? Review: Salonen leads the L.A. Phil's Weimar festival into the raw darkness of 'Nightfall' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He shared his close friend Brecht’s Marxist sensibility. Review: Hanns Eisler opera at Stanford reopens the book on a blacklisted Hollywood composer 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z In one of his poems Bertolt Brecht once asked: “What times are these / When to talk about trees is almost a crime / For in doing so we remain silent about so many horrors.” Family suicides in Turkey speak of a society that has lost hope | Elif Shafak 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z One of the first things I did was go to the Berliner Ensemble, where original Bertolt Brecht productions were still playing. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Neuroscientist Michael Brecht of the Humboldt University of Berlin got the idea for his experiment from YouTube. Lab rats play hide-and-seek for the fun of it, new study shows 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Enough had changed nine years later that Weill set his “Berlin Requiem” to unsparingly hopeless poems of Brecht. Review: Salonen leads the L.A. Phil's Weimar festival into the raw darkness of 'Nightfall' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z A good many of the texts were by Brecht. Review: Hanns Eisler opera at Stanford reopens the book on a blacklisted Hollywood composer 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Did the experience offer any new insight into Brecht? Op-Ed: L.A.'s history lingers at our fingertips. We just have to be willing to grab it 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z At the very least, Brecht says, avoid putting your food in the trunk of your car. How to store peaches, corn and melons and stop wasting summer’s best produce 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “Many scientists think this is trivial, but these are very complex behaviors” because the rats assume different roles, follow rules, and even strategize about where to hide, Brecht says. Lab rats play hide-and-seek for the fun of it, new study shows 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Finally, fleeing doomed Berlin in 1933, “The Seven Deadly Sins” was Brecht’s and Weill’s reckoning of the world’s social ills. Review: Salonen leads the L.A. Phil's Weimar festival into the raw darkness of 'Nightfall' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z They represent Eisler’s moods as well as his and Brecht’s deeply conflicted attitude about living in Santa Monica, which they felt was both paradise and prison. Review: Hanns Eisler opera at Stanford reopens the book on a blacklisted Hollywood composer 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s been less than a lifetime since Brecht took up residence in Santa Monica. Op-Ed: L.A.'s history lingers at our fingertips. We just have to be willing to grab it 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “Melons are a bit of a problem,” according to Brecht. How to store peaches, corn and melons and stop wasting summer’s best produce 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Brecht says several clues point to the former. Lab rats play hide-and-seek for the fun of it, new study shows 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z There is more wit, however biting, in the better known “Seven Deadly Sins,” the final collaboration between Weill and Brecht before their falling out, with Brecht turning to the more politically uncompromising Hanns Eisler. Review: Salonen leads the L.A. Phil's Weimar festival into the raw darkness of 'Nightfall' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Withering irony is bread and butter to Brecht, who claimed that Eisler was his best reader, the composer who best caught his essence. Review: Hanns Eisler opera at Stanford reopens the book on a blacklisted Hollywood composer 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Although I’ve never set foot inside Chandler’s place on Drexel, I did visit Brecht’s house once; the person who lived there invited me inside for a tour of the room in which the playwright wrote. Op-Ed: L.A.'s history lingers at our fingertips. We just have to be willing to grab it 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “The more cutting you do, the faster the deterioration,” Brecht says. How to store peaches, corn and melons and stop wasting summer’s best produce 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Regardless of your political persuasion, Antaeus Theatre Company’s revival stylishly fulfills the key principles of Brecht’s “epic theater”: direct audience engagement and intellectual provocation. Review: It's rich versus poor in Antaeus Theatre's 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z That's still a controversial suggestion, says Michael Brecht, a neuroscientist at Humboldt University in Berlin. Laser holograms stimulate brain cells in mice to probe roots of perception and hallucination 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Surtitles were imaginatively projected for the songs in German but not for those sung in Albery’s English translations, and too much of Brecht’s poetry was lost. Review: Hanns Eisler opera at Stanford reopens the book on a blacklisted Hollywood composer 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z But the fact that the owner and I acknowledged the history kept Brecht connected to Southern California, and us to the World War II emigre culture. Op-Ed: L.A.'s history lingers at our fingertips. We just have to be willing to grab it 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The Caucasian Chalk Circle A kitchen maid rescues an abandoned baby during a civil war in the Caucasus region of Georgia in Bertolt Brecht’s classic satire. SoCal theater listings, July 7-14: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ and more 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Faithfully adhering to Brecht’s characters and plot, the Anteus ensemble’s abstract style precludes emotional catharsis and ensures we never forget the theatrical artifice we’re witnessing. Review: It's rich versus poor in Antaeus Theatre's 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z But future studies of precisely triggered neurons may yet resolve the role of ensembles, Brecht notes. Laser holograms stimulate brain cells in mice to probe roots of perception and hallucination 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z He says about 12 men then started attacking Brecht. Police: Gay couple attacked by people using homophobic slur 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Eventually, Craven said, about 12 men started attacking Brecht. Gay couple assaulted, robbed on U Street in attack that used homophobic slur, police report says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The music The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill The 1928 play with music is the story of the rise and fall of criminal Macheath. Hedonism, sex and fear – why the Weimar republic is in vogue 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Certainly Brecht’s brilliant lifetime of production seems superhuman — and the beautifully produced, massive, thousand-dense-pages-plus new edition of his “Collected Poems” might foster that illusion just by reason of its heft and gravity. Death Valley acid trips and cocktails with Einstein — The SoCal lives of exiled minds 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But I was only becoming acquainted with a playwright who melds a unique set of influences: Plato’s dialogues, Brecht’s epic theater, Shaw’s comedy of ideas and Mamet’s stylish polemics, to name the most prominent. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Brecht was left with a split lip and chipped front tooth. Police: Gay couple attacked by people using homophobic slur 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Craven’s wallet and Brecht’s cellphone were stolen, they said. Gay couple assaulted, robbed on U Street in attack that used homophobic slur, police report says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Remember Bertolt Brecht’s warning: “The womb is fertile still/ from which that crawled.” Why we must not let Europe break apart 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Like many artists who came to Hollywood, Brecht solicited work from the film industry he despised, and some might say that he often bit the hand that fed him. Death Valley acid trips and cocktails with Einstein — The SoCal lives of exiled minds 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z She was “trying to write other people’s books in other people’s voices”; Bertolt Brecht inspired one, Nadine Gordimer another, “but in all of them I was faking it in every sentence”. Tessa Hadley: ‘Long marriages are interesting. You either hang on or you don't' 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z It turned out his playing partner, Northwestern’s Lucas Brecht, actually mistakenly hit Leal’s provisional ball, and that the ball Leal thought was his provisional was actually his original ball. The 16 most gut-wrenching Rules decisions of 2018 - Golf Digest 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z All Karl Craven could think to do when he saw his boyfriend, Braden Brecht, getting attacked was to jump on top of him to defend him. Gay couple assaulted, robbed on U Street in attack that used homophobic slur, police report says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Inspired by Bertolt Brecht, an ensemble of actors staged plays that broke the fourth wall, drawing the audience into tales that offered pointed critiques of war profiteering and other injustices. Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But for Brecht, biting the hand that fed him was, as for any artist, sort of the point. Death Valley acid trips and cocktails with Einstein — The SoCal lives of exiled minds 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In the case of Auden, as in the case of Brecht, inverted hypocrisy served to hide an irresistible inclination toward being good and doing good—something that both were ashamed to admit, let alone proclaim. Remembering W. H. Auden, by Hannah Arendt 1975-01-13T05:00:00Z It can pay to highlight Brecht’s stylish extremity, “the horror in the heart of farce,” as a line in the play’s epilogue puts it. The Disturbing Resonance of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Craven, 24, and Brecht, 21, had just left Hawthorne in the 1300 block of U Street NW around 1:44 a.m. Gay couple assaulted, robbed on U Street in attack that used homophobic slur, police report says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z |
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