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Bertolt Brecht

Classical CD Review: A Ballet of Human Sacrifice — Set in Ancient Mexico or Post–World War I Germany?

Egon Wellesz’s Weimar era critique of the cruelty of nations that are victorious in war still rings hauntingly true.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Music, Review Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Capriccio, Die Opferung des Gefangenen, Egon Wellesz, Friedrich Cerha, Ralph Locke, The Sacrifice of the Prisoner)

Opera Review: BLO’s “Threepenny Opera” — Neither Fish Nor Fowl

It would have been wonderful to have seen either a faithful version of Threepenny Opera in German or a boldly conceived contemporary version.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Culture Vulture, James Darrah, Kurt-Weill, Threepenny Opera

Opera Preview: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Threepenny Opera” — A Reflection of Brutal Times

“You can be certain that when the show begins and you hear “Mack the Knife,” the choreography will suggest scenes of slashing and murdering.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Popular Music, Preview Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Boston-Lyric-Opera, David Angus, The Threepenny Opera

Fuse Theater Review: The Wilbury Theatre Group Mashes-up Politics

Authoritarianism is at its most chilling, at least in the theater, when everyone, the weak and the strong, takes it for granted.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht, Harold-Pinter, Josh Short, Mary Paula Hunter, New World Order, Party Time, The Wilbury Theater, Ui

Theater Review: Yale Rep’s “Caucasian Chalk Circle” — Singing Well About Our Dark Times

Those who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep’s lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, David Lang, Liz Diamond, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Yale Repertory Theatre

From the Editor’s Desk: Lessons from Bertolt Brecht — and Highlights of the Week

Today’s increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Editorial, Fuse News Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Michael Hofmann, political-theater, Stephen Parker

Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co Mounts a Powerful Staging of “Mother Courage”

Olympia Dukakis makes good on her desire to evoke the weakness the indomitable Mother Courage fights so hard to cover up: the actress conveys the highs and lows of this gargantuan character with enormous power.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Eric-Bentley, John Douglas Thompson, Mother Courage, Olympia Dukakis, Shakespeare and Company

Fuse Theater Review: New York Theater Roundup — “Clive,” “The Dance and the Railroad” and “The Flick”

By planning ahead, and purchasing one flexpass, I was able to see a trio of plays in New York during a single weekend for well under $200 — a bargain price for world-class theater productions.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Baal, Bertolt Brecht, Clive, Dance and the Railroad, David Henry Hwang, Ethan Hawke, Playwrights Horizon, Signature-Theatre-Company, The Flick, Theater Row

Theater Commentary: Drums in the Night — A Glimpse of the Real Weimar

“My condition was like that of a man who has fired a gun at people he dislikes, and finds these same people coming and giving three cheers for him: inadvertently he had been firing loaves of bread. – Bertolt Brecht, “Drums in the Night’s Success With the Bourgeoisie” By Bill Marx Granted, some of Brecht’s […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Theater Tagged: A.R.T. Institute, Bertolt Brecht, Drums in the Night, The Blue Flower, Weimar

Book Review: How To Sing in Dark Times — “Brecht at Night”

I am one of the judges for the Best Translated Book Award (fiction division) sponsored by Three Percent. The five finalists will be announced in New York on February 16th. Three Percent honcho Chad Post needed help to meet his goal of posting a commentary on each of the 25 volumes on the BTB’s fiction […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Brecht at Night, communism, Dalkey Archive Press, Estonia, Estonian, fiction, hitler, Mati Unt, Stalin

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