Bertolt Brecht News

The New York premiere of the acclaimed The Nonsense Company's Storm Still will take place Saturday, February 19th.

Seattle Shakespeare Company announced today its plans to produce The Threepenny Opera at the Intiman Theatre. The Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical satire about the dapper criminal, Mac the Knife, and the denizens of his seedy underworld will run February 16 through March 6, 2011 for 15 performances only.

An evocative critique of modern family and religious life, The First Ladies examines what can happen when three unfulfilled women become possessed by their own fantasies. Guest director Zeljko Djukic brings his unique and vibrant voice to Trap Door with his staging of Werner Schwab's devastatingly modern play that juxtaposes two worlds, the dream world and the low-class world, in order to tell and show us that happiness is impossible, even when dreaming. The play utilizes hyperrealism not to represent the naturalistic world, but to put the world in quotation marks and expose its exploitative nature and cruelty. With its sophisticated nuances in movement and speech, this riveting, highly poetic play poses exciting emotional demands for both actors and audience.

Pipeline Theatre Co presents The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht

The New York premiere of the acclaimed The Nonsense Company's Storm Still will take place Saturday, February 19th.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, directed by Shana Cooper, at the University Theatre (222 York Street) March 11-April 2, 2011.

The American Conservatory Theater Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program presents Dario Fo's political comedy Archangels Don't Play Pinball, translated by Ron Jenkins, with assistance from Gloria Pastorino, and directed by A.C.T. Head of Movement and Physical Theater Stephen Buescher.

In April of 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein shocked the Theatre World by writing a song for their new musical professing that humans developed racial prejudice by nurture and not by nature.  Later that same year, a scene in the new musical by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill showed two racially different young boys innocently striking up a quick friendship, unaware of why anyone would object.

The New York stage is often a haven for self-destructive couples on display, but rarely is that self-destruction so bluntly in view as in Rajiv Joseph's intriguing Gruesome Playground Injuries.  The work of this imaginative playwright, who'll be making his Broadway debut later this season with his Pulitzer finalist, A Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, grows more interesting with each new piece to hit town and director Scott Ellis' darkly funny Second Stage production is terrifically unsettling.

BoHo Theatre's production of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man, winner of the Tony, Drama Desk, and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for best play, will close February 6, 2011 at Theater Wit, 1229 W Belmont Avenue. The Elephant Man is directed by June Eubanks.

In its ninth year, Modfest is Vassar College's exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year's program will celebrate the visual arts, dance, drama, film, literature, poetry, and music in a series of events that will take place across the Vassar campus from January 20 through February 5, 2011.

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program presents the world premiere of acclaimed San Francisco writer Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Litter: The Story of the Framingham Dodecatuplets, directed by A.C.T. Associate Artistic Director Mark Rucker.

The New York premiere of the acclaimed The Nonsense Company's Storm Still will take place Saturday, February 19th.

Upcoming MTI Shows - 1/30 for Tokyo

People's Light & Theatre presents Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, adapted for the stage by Laura Eason.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the 20th century musical theater milestone, The Threepenny Opera, written by Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Weill and directed by third-year MFA in Directing candidate, Halena Kays.

Blackfriars Theatre, a not-for-profit mid -sized professional theatre on Rochester's "Theatre Row" is pleased to announce the opening of "JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS," conceived by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, based on Jacques Brel's lyrics and commentary, with music by Jacques Brel.

The Castillo Theatre (Dan Friedman, artistic director, Diane Stiles, managing director) held the first full cast rehearsal today for Fred Newman's MR. HIRSCH DIED YESTERDAY, which runs Friday, January 21 to Sunday, February 20 with an official press preview on Thursday, January 20. Directed by Woodie King, Jr. (founder and producing director of the New Federal Theatre).

After being absent from Seattle's professional stages for almost 30 years, Seattle Shakespeare Company revives Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's landmark musical The Threepenny Opera for 14 performances at the Intiman Theatre.

In its ninth year, Modfest is Vassar College's exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year's program will celebrate the visual arts, dance, drama, film, literature, poetry, and music in a series of events that will take place across the Vassar campus from January 20 through February 5, 2011.