Bertolt Brecht News

In her three years at Tanglewood, Christin-Marie Hill has progressed from a car wreck to a broken-down truck.

The Good Person of Szechuan: By Bertolt Brecht. Adapted and directed by Erin Merritt.

THIS SUMMER, Women's Will will bring Bertolt Brecht's classic "The Good Person of Szechuan" to Centennial Park, 5353 Sunol Blvd., Pleasanton.

Jennifer Ward-Lealand's home is full of books, art and all the family needs to both unwind and be inspired.

The song ends with a nod to Diana Ross playing Billie Holiday in the incarceration scene from Lady Sings the Blues.

A Young Vic presentation of a play in two acts by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Harrower.

“Baal"). Also strange is the inclusion of songs like "Pirate Jenny”

There are so many things wrong with Janus Theatre's "The Greatest Story eBertolt: A Brecht Review" that they obscure the good intentions of Sarafina Vecchio, the show's director and creator. via Daily Herald

“What do you mean, 'That was nice?”

The words uttered by Macheath, aka Mack the Knife, in an early scene in 'The Threepenny Opera' aptly sum up the feeling one gets from viewing the notoriously challenging, authority-taunting theatrical work by ... via BurlingtonFreePress.com

“We're just letting it be itself. Brecht said you shouldn't hide the elements”

The Threepenny Opera Project will be performed on Saturday, May 3, 3 & 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 4, 3 p.m., at McAuley Hall, UVM Trinity Campus, Burlington. via Seven Days

“I was having an e.e. cummings moment”

The Harvard Office for the Arts' Dance Program's annual show, "Dancers' Viewpointe," is the first large-scale coordination of music and dance in the program's history. via Harvard Crimson

Relevance of 'Threepenny Opera' spans generations By Roger McBain Thursday, April 10, 2008 Photo by Sean Nicholl. via Evansville Courier & Press

“I love the way the production has the ability to play with and tantalize audiences”

Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 5:03 pm Press Release: Silo Theatre MEDIA RELEASE for immediate release: 31 March 2008 Morality Has No Home Silo Theatre and The Large Group presents BERTOLT BRECHT & KURT WEILL's THE ... via Scoop

“The Soldiers Wife'. If there was a standard missing I'd probably nominate the 'Alabama song”

Thursday, 13 March 2008, 5:38 pm Opinion: Lyndon Hood Review by Lyndon Hood The Songs of Kurt Weill Plan 9 - Janet Roddick, David Donaldson and Steve Roche, with David Long, Chris O'Connor and Jeff Henderson ... via Scoop

The Threepenny Opera music by Kurt Weill, book by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Mark Blitztine, directed and choreographed by Alister Smith. via Esoteric Rabbit Films

“An extraordinary voice that sounds as though Diamanda Gal's drowned in cherry liqueur. She has the audience hanging on her every move.”

Meow Meow, international singing sensation and exotica performance artist, will descend on the Pacific Blue Festival Club in a spiralling journey of obsessive love songs, minor multimedia, tired old tricks and ... via Scoop

The Hayloft Project: Chekov Re-Cut: Platonov by Anton Chekhov, adapted and directed by Simon Stone Red Room Theatre Company: The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht , music by Kurt Weil, directed by Alister ... via Esoteric Rabbit Films

“Lindbergh's dialogue with his engine”

Sunday, 24 February 2008, 6:05 pm Opinion: Lyndon Hood Review by Lyndon Hood The Lindbergh Flight/The Flight Over The Ocean & The Seven Deadly Sins By Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht Director Fançois Girard ... via Scoop

Could that be Mack the Knife? Opera at USC will present Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's opera for the everyday man, "The Threepenny Opera." WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday WHERE: USC School of Music ... via The State

“Weill really broke down the barrier between the classical and pop”

Most people, especially those of a certain age, know "The Threepenny Opera" from Bobby Darin's 1959 hit version of the tune "Mack the Knife." The 1928 opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill also was a popular ... via The State

“By daily cheating, mistreating, beating others, spitting in their face. / Only the man survives who's able to forget / that he's a member of the human race.”

"All values were changed - and not only material ones. The laws of the state were flouted, no tradition, no moral code was respected... Bars, amusement parks, honky-tonks sprang up like mushrooms..." Today's ... via EKathimerini