Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk ...

SEVEN PLAYS (587 pp.) — Bertolt Brecht—Grove ($8.50). Most major playwrights leave an unmistakable identifying mark on their work. It may be smaller than theme or plot or character; often it is apt to ...

Before I begin my review of Cal Poly Humboldt’s production of “The Life of Galileo,” presented by the Department of Dance, Music & Theatre in the Gist Hall Theatre that I saw on its opening night of ...

No matter how much dialogue David Gordon casts about in his productions, they’re usually still listed as upcoming attractions under “dance,” and dance critics regularly review them. His latest work, ...

NEW YORK — Bertolt Brecht's epic play "Mother Courage and Her Children" may be about the horrors of war, but a new off-Broadway production is revealing real conflict offstage, too. Tony Award-winning ...

For me, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann were the two greatest German authors of the 20 th century, and Brecht, a believer in socialism – and a fighter for it – is admittedly closer to my heart than ...