The seventh annual BrechtFest, which celebrates the work of German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, returns to the Allways Lounge.

In Jürgen Hillesheim’s recent book on the Augsburg adolescence of Bertolt Brecht, we learn how the quiet but stubborn protagonist came to be expelled from high school. It was 1917 and the Great War ...

The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.

In 1931 German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht met a young actor, a woman called Margarete Steffin, with whom he was to become both intimately and intellectually involved. They met at a play ...

Bertolt Brecht has written 36 shows including Die Sieben Todsünden (Lyricist), Mother (Playwright), Galileo (Playwright), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Playwright), Brecht on Brecht (Lyricist), Man is ...

On September 1, 1939, one week after entering into a secret alliance, the armies of Hitler and Stalin invaded Poland—the opening move in the Wehrmacht land grab that precipitated the Second World War.

HOW MANY KIDS GROW UP DREAMING OF BEING A PRO BASEBALL PLAYER? WELL, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, BRODY BRECHT WASN’T ONE OF THOSE KIDS. BUT COME SUNDAY, HIS LIFE IS ABOUT TO HEAD THAT DIRECTION. KCCI SHANNON ...

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk ...