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WATERTOWN — Playwright, poet, lyricist, and director Bertolt Brecht wrote dramas designed to provoke audiences to action, not reflection, says New Repertory Theatre artistic director Jim Petosa.

The theater critic, playwright, and stage actor Eric Bentley is the foremost English-speaking authority on Bertolt Brecht. He collaborated with the contentious and brilliant German writer extensively ...

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 ...

Did you know that Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage has been performed at the National Theatre in Addis Ababa since 2019? If you haven’t yet attended, we highly recommend you do so soon.

The playwright Bertolt Brecht was born in 1898 in the German town of Augsburg. After serving as a medical orderly in the First World War and appalled by the effects of the war, he went first to Munich ...

Bertold Brecht put Marxist collectivism and dialectical materialism into his art as few other Western writers. His avidness for money? No matter. The German poet-playwright belied any doubts about his ...