Berkeley-born playwright Itamar Moses wrote his play “Bach at Leipzig” much like Johann Sebastian Bach himself wrote his music. If he were the kind of writer with a need to impress his audience with ...

“Bach at Leipzig,” Itamar Moses’s farce about an 18th-century contest among seven musicians vying for a post in Leipzig left open by the death of Johann Kuhnau – a position eventually filled by Johann ...

The most famous portrait of the iconic German composer Johann Sebastian Bach went on public display for the first time in decades when it was unveiled to enthusiastic applause at the Nikolai Kirche in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Itamar Moses, the American playwright, author and of BACH AT LEIZIG, now ...

With shows like American Idol, The Voice and America's Got Talent all the rage, Taproot Theatre brings the original 18th century reality show to the stage as Itamar Moses' Bach at Leipzig opens on May ...

Germany has celebrated this revelation, attributed to Peter Wollny, who conducted extensive research after discovering the pieces as a student of musicology.

Braxton Boren, an assistant professor of audio technology at American University, is all about sound simulations. His research has included such projects as figuring out how many people heard the ...

The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the greatest organist in the world has died, and musicians are hurrying to ...

It’s not often that one associates rising young playwrights with mastery of the classical form. Not yet 30 years old, Itamar Moses bucks the prevalent trend of elliptical modernism in “Bach at Leipzig ...

The nominal premise of "Bach at Leipzig" is that of a competition among Germany's greatest organists, circa 1722, for the coveted post of that city's chief musical director. But if that suggests a ...

Twenty-seven-year-old playwright Itamar Moses’ brainy comedy doesn’t settle for cheap laughs, though it has a lot of them. He’s got more—much more—on his mind, and you’d better resign yourself to his ...

"Bach at Leipzig" seems far more intoxicated with its own cleverness than most audiences are likely to be. Itamar Moses is a young playwright whose work has attracted support from his chief influence, ...