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Goethe-Institut

Concert Review: Singer Ute Gfrerer at Goethe Institut — An Evening of Uncommon Grace

Singer Ute Gfrerer’s name should be spread far and wide to anyone — Jewish or not — who is interested in the music of that period, for this is first-rate work that should be heard for generations to come.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Review, World Books Tagged: German song, Goethe-Institut, Susanne Klingenstein, Ute Gfrerer

Theater Review: An Enigmatic “Abyss” — A Crime Drama About Serbs in Germany

Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more ‘cinematic’ when they are produced here?

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Abyss, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, Maria Milisavljevic

Theater Review: “The Golden Dragon” — A Satire With Bite about International Cuisine

In his satire “The Golden Dragon,” Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to “theater-people”: be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review Tagged: German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, The Golden Dragon

Theater Feature: From the Mouths of Female Despots — An Interview With Playwright Theresia Walser

Dramatist Theresia Walser is careful to point out that these women did not merely benefit from the abuses of authoritarian power, but perpetrated many of them as well.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater, World Books Tagged: German Stage, German theater, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, Theresia Walser, translation

Theater Review: “A Little Calm Before the Storm” — The Art of Playing Hitler

Director Guy Ben-Aharon is on a roll. Working through Israeli Stage and German Stage, he has brought together another smart, compelling foreign play (an American premiere) and a first-rate cast.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A Little Calm Before the Storm, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, hitler, Theresia Walser

Fuse Theater Review: A Powerful “Ulysses on Bottles”

Despite being a staged reading with scripts still in hand, the members of the Israeli Stage ensemble were already comfortably inhabiting their roles, striking just the right balance between the tragic and comic dimensions of their characters.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Goethe-Institut, Israeli Stage, Ulysses on Bottles

Theater Review: A Moving “let us find the words”

Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet’s freedom in her body and voice.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Featured, Theater, World Books Tagged: Alexander Muheim, Dominique Frot, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Hans Peter Cloos, Ingeborg Bachmann, let us find the words, Paul Celan

Theater Feature: A German Stage at the Goethe-Institut Boston

“The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that reach the stage.”

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Annette Klein, Boston, Detlef Gerick-Schönhagen, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, John Kuntz, Thomas Derrah, Voltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters

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