Readers unfamiliar with Bertolt Brecht’s life should approach the new translation of his letters warily or not at all. [1] From Brecht’s collected letters and the editors’ notes, the uninitiated are ...

Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is set to challenge its performers and audiences, just as a once-banned Brecht would have liked. By David Belcher As a playwright and director, Bertolt ...

Throughout his life, the great German playwright made punky montages that explored how Nazism infested the country he had to flee. Why have they taken so long to come to light? Bertolt Brecht believed ...

Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in 'Brecht,' his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. By Stephen Dalton Bertolt Brecht was lucky there was ...