Bertolt Brecht News

A Kurt Weill song can't be mistaken for anything else. There's something tense in the warmest of his melodic lines, something pointed in the simplest of his harmonies.

WEDNESDAY 9.45AM: Set in London just prior to Queen Victoria's Coronation in 1838, The Threepenny Opera focuses on a tale of the working class and gangland London where life is cheap and crime usually pays.

STRANGE noises and writhing and knifings are afoot in the deconsecrated aisles of the Franciscan Church.

BFT has staged over 200 productions-involving more than 50 directors and nearly 1,000 actors and 500 crew people-that have been seen by almost 100,000 audience members.

Our amateur theatre groups must be taking a bit of a breather as there is only one show making it to the stage this week, but it combines the elements of comedy, thriller, and musical theatre, writes Lynda Smart .

Is art a mirror that reflects reality, or a hammer used to shape it? Courtesy of the Instanbul Biennal The work of Marko Peljhan explores the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Serbian militias, in contempt of United Nations protection, at Srebrenica in the former Yugoslavia.

Andrew Steinmetz's Great Aunt Eva is the best kind of relative for a writer to have -- one with a past, and a willingness to disclose it.

Who would have thought that the story of infamous criminal Mack the Knife - yes, the guy from that crooner classic - would foster cooperation across two hemispheres? After a successful "West Side Story" in 2007, students and faculty from Binghamton University have teamed up again with counterparts at Duoc Universidad Catolica of Santiago, Chile, ...

" The sounds of Weimar Berlin snake their way into Victorian London as a mysterious man known only as "the Captain" arranges a secret marriage to an innocent young girl.

If you only know "Mack the Knife" as some kind of easy-listening tune, prepare yourself for a jolt.

Thanks to Danny for sending this to me. Excerpts from Brechta s Stories of Mr. Keuner, translated by Martin Chalmers , author of The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and many other provocative plays, poems and theoretical writings, composed his Mr.

Thanks to Danny for sending this to me. Excerpts from Brechta s Stories of Mr. Keuner, translated by Martin Chalmers , author of The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and many other provocative plays, poems and theoretical writings, composed his Mr.

Thanks to Danny for sending this to me. Excerpts from Brechta s Stories of Mr. Keuner, translated by Martin Chalmers , author of The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and many other provocative plays, poems and theoretical writings, composed his Mr.

Since James Conlon took over as music director at Ravinia, he has shown his skill with opera and has brought us infrequently heard works by composers murdered or otherwise sidelined during the Holocaust.

Since James Conlon took over as music director at Ravinia, he has shown his skill with opera and has brought us infrequently heard works by composers murdered or otherwise sidelined during the Holocaust.

"Inta l Istanbul Biennial to seek answer to question ISTANBUL - The 11th International Istanbul Biennial will take place between Sept.

"Istanbul Biennial announces list of artists 11th International Istanbul Biennial is curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW. The exhibition is entitled 'What Keeps Mankind Alive?', the English translation of the song 'Denn wovon lebt der Mensch?' from The Threepenny Opera, written in 1928 by Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann ...

This is all Alan Moore 's fault. And Kevin O'Neill . And Jess Nevins . And Nellie McKay .

The Berliner Ensemble theater company was founded by Bertolt Brecht and his second wife, actress Helene Weigel, in 1949.

Tenor Ian Bostridge fell in love with The Threepenny Opera as a student. Now he's finally staging his dream production Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper in The Threepenny Opera.