It’s a pretty safe bet that, if you walked up to 10 people on the street and asked them who Brecht and Weill were, you’d get at least eight blank stares. Maybe two people would recognize the pair’s ...

New York City Opera will present Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's thrilling double bill, The Seven Deadly Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel, for the first time ever told as one story, a tragic fable for today ...

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 ...

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.

When the cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century comes to be written, among its most distinctive and durable landmarks may be the musical plays of two young Germans driven from ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Composed by Kurt Weill with the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht in 1928, the song ...

Documentaries, even about fascinating people, can be deadly. Too many talking heads and grainy stills. Then there’s “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez,” which has its Twin Cities premiere this week at Intermedia ...

On her stunning new CD The German Projekt, which features jazz-imbued arrangements of classic songs by Brecht-Weill and Friedrich Hollaender and which is being released on May 12, singer Andrea Fultz ...