An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) and Toni Collette (Hereditary) are set to star as estranged sisters whose reunion sets off an emotionally volatile chain of events in Mother Courage, ...

Merje Veski’s set for Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo simultaneously evokes ... It all makes this play read like a contemporary tragedy. The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t.

What do Bertolt Brecht, George Floyd, and the 1980 disco hit “Funkytown” have in common? All figure into “A Mother,” a new play adapted, very freely, from “The Mother,” Brecht’s account of a ...

But despite the play’s nihilism and cynicism ... rehearsing Threepenny Opera in the theater where Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, et al., worked. And when you work with Berliner Ensemble ...

“Plays such as ‘Henry VI,’ ‘King John ... the messiness of human nature that carries on to this day. Bertolt Brecht and 20th century political theater In the 20th century, German ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Music icon David Bowie had such an enduring love affair with Germany’s Berlin, he almost single-handedly brought the notorious ...

And now with Bertolt Brecht’s THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO ... myself looking inro a mirror of our present day. Would the play have the same power for me had it been performed prior to ...

Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays. Paul Dessau, who collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and ...

and perhaps also the greatest anti-war play of all time, “Mother Courage” is composed of 12 scenes. Following Brecht's own principles for political drama, the play is not set in modern times but ...