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One of the earliest expressions of totalitarianism in German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s novel The Director unfolds in a classroom. In 1930, Jakob, the son of the Expressionist auteur G.W. Pabst ...
Former Hamburg and Cologne midfielder Jimmy Hartwig features in Life After Football, our series looking at how Bundesliga ...
A one-man show, a box of old stories, and the strange intimacy of talking to a room full of strangers.
Fresh as a daisy even though it was written around 440-2 BC, one of the world’s most famous plays is being staged outdoors ... then after World War II, Bertolt Brecht ventured on an adaptation ...
“Threepenny,” his epochal collaboration with Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann ... the marriage of Sam and Susan will play out against changing American scenes from 1791 onward.
I’m sure he didn’t want to be, not like this, but he’s famous now ... the German writer Bertolt Brecht penned “a parable play,” as he called it, titled The Resistible Rise of Arturo ...
Brecht, famous for writing “The Threepenny Opera” (a staple of every high school theatre group in the country) with collaborator Kurt Weill, was vehemently anti-Fascist and wrote many of his plays to ...
“It’s one of the most famous disasters of all time ... But despite the play’s nihilism and cynicism, it’s saved by Brecht’s humor and Weill’s music which make it human.” ...
“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 ...
In October 2024, the Beijing People’s Art Theater (PAT) once again brought its signature play, Lao She’s “Teahouse,” to ... and mixed lines from the script with passages from Bertolt Brecht, Fyodor ...
Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost ...