Marianne Faithfull puts pain behind her Nov 13, 2009
She has gone from singing light folk-rock in the '60s to becoming a leading interpreter of the dark pre-World War II Berlin theatrical music of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Faithfull is proud of her role as muse to the Rolling Stones in their early years, inspiring such songs as "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Wild Horses, and "Sister Morphine" (for which she belatedly received credit for writing the lyrics). And she was a muse to the Beats Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughts and... (MSNBC -- Music)
From the archive: Jon Stone Nov 11, 2009
They have more in common with Bertolt Brecht than with academe. His puppet characters are movingly human. (The Economist)
In Berlin, A Peter Hacks Renaissance, Nathan Thornburgh, The New Yorker Nov 11, 2009
Bertolt Brecht advised him not to move to East Germany in the early nineteen-fifties (the conference s title, Good People are Good Everywhere, was taken from that missive). But Hacks moved anyway. (Harper's Magazine)
‘The Overwhelming’ sets the scene in Rwanda before the genocide Nov 3, 2009
The epigraph to The Overwhelming is a line from a poem by Bertolt Brecht: Think - When you speak of our weaknesses / Also of the dark time / That brought them forth. Don Aucoin can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
Remember the socialist origins of Labor Day! Sep 5, 2009
Bertolt Brecht, The Three Penny Opera. Goldie. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Madoff scheme took in members of religious group Aug 27, 2009
In its early days in the 1960s, the group performed Bertolt Brecht works on Lewis Wharf and later did puppet theater for children and large sociopolitical pieces. One play about the turbulence of the 1960s, Riot, went to New York and in 1968 won an off-Broadway Obie Award. (Boston Globe)
Leiber and Stoller write about music legacy Jul 19, 2009
" "I can't think of two Jews who were less Jewish," says Leiber, who once wrote a musical without Stoller that was never produced. Leonard Bernstein was his collaborator and Jerome Robbins was the director. Based on the work of Bertolt Brecht, the book for the proposed show never quite came together. "It was a Communist tract," says Leiber, "but I turned it into Amos 'n' Andy. " Leiber and Stoller have been dusting off a couple of their own musicals. Their Oscar Wilde piece is getting some... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Student-directed plays tonight at Southwestern Jun 6, 2009
Other plays include Poof, directed by Chelsee Carter; Men s Intuition, directed by Justin McCarley; and The Jewish Wife and The Informant by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Peter Wilson. SOCC's end-of-term productions involve students from acting, directing and tech classes, making department closure "more poignant," said producer Rob Clingan. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
The First Album of The Doors May 18, 2009
A Brief Review of the Songs Released in the Debut Album. The debut self-titled album of The Doors is usually considered as the best album of the band, as it contains some legendary rock songs. (Suite101.com)
Does theater need to play it safe? May 16, 2009
After it became financially impossible to keep producing plays, Wheeler went on to direct at the American Repertory Theater, which championed many of the same modern masters as he did, such as Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, and Harold Pinter. Things are changing next year. (Boston Globe)
A playwright's marathon in ancient Greece May 5, 2009
Sophocles wrote the most famous plays about the city Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus and other playwrights, including Jean Anouilh, Bertolt Brecht, Athol Fugard and Wajdi Mouawad, to name a handful, have been inspired millennia afterwards. Dickens's cycle isn't simply an adaptation of these older works. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Romancing the Jihad Apr 18, 2009
Glazov's book indicts Left artists and intellectuals - e.g. George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht and Susan Sontag -- for having "venerated mass murderers such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, habitually excusing their atrocities while blaming Americans and even the victims for their crimes.". Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Left spent several years wandering in the wilderness. (Townhall.com)
Brecht's granddaughter takes on the in-crowd Apr 13, 2009
re's The Misanthrope, has no such vain concerns about being asked about her grandfather, Bertolt Brecht. That would be the Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary playwright, director and founder of the Berliner Ensemble. (Globe and Mail)
Critic's picks - theater Apr 12, 2009
Catalyst Collaborative@MIT presents David Hare's translation of the Bertolt Brecht play. David Wheeler directs; Richard McElvain stars. (Boston Globe)
'Coriolanus' finds itself in a strange place Mar 18, 2009
OK, maybe it's an homage to Bertolt Brecht, who did work on his own adaptation of the play. But it doesn't feel like a stimulating kind of alienation; it just feels alien. (Boston Globe)
Sinful singing Mar 12, 2009
Tonight's program is the 1933 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht satirical one-act opera "The Seven Deadly Sins," hosted by Opera Boston music director Gil Rose. 7:30 p.m. $10 cover charge. (Boston Globe)
Newsweek: 'Watchmen' is too loyal to the graphic novel Mar 3, 2009
It alludes effortlessly to Bertolt Brecht, William S. Burroughs, "Dr. Strangelove," Greek mythology, ancient Egyptian history, Reaganism and Thatcherism. It's funny, gory, sexy, sleazy and heartbreaking. (MSNBC -- News)
'Kaspar' and 'Baloney,' two macabre tales, have drawing power Mar 2, 2009
Though this is the only song Baloney sings, Blanchet has fashioned his story in three symphonic acts, set to distinct orchestral pieces by composers Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Frederic Chopin, and Kurt Weill, best known for "The Threepenny Opera," his musical with Bertolt Brecht. (Astonishingly, there's no accompanying CD.). (Boston Globe)
Theater for the proletariat Feb 20, 2009
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles," said Marx in "The Communist Manifesto." German playwright Bertolt Brecht addresses this sense of class struggle in "The Threepenny Opera," performed in the Betts Theater this weekend. "Brecht wrote very political theater," said director Leslie Jacobson, a professor of theater at the University. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Chávez looks ahead as he faces serious challenges Feb 17, 2009
Also in his victory speech on Sunday night, he entranced followers with references ranging from Bertolt Brecht to the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. "Today begins the week of love," Chvez also exclaimed to the crowd, humoring voters who had complained that the referendum interfered with their Valentine's Day plans. (International Herald Tribune)
