Bertolt Brecht News

The North American tour of Rogers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! began performances at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN on November 9, 2021 and will continue to play over 25 cities during the 2021-2022 season including stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago and Nashville, and more. Read the reviews!

The Catastrophic Theatre has announced another season of  championing avant-garde plays and playwrights rarely produced in Houston.

From rock to Rossini, Victorian Opera announces its Season 2022 with a year of undiscovered gems, thrilling epics and two world premieres. The state opera company presents eight productions, including three Australian operas.

BRECHT ON BRECHT is playing now through November 20th, 2021.

Theatro Sao Pedro premieres the satirical ballet chante The Seven Deadly Sins, the last collaboration between Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht. The production will be musically directed by Ira Levin, who will command the Theatro Sao Pedro Orchestra. The Seven Deadly Sins opens on November 5th. In all, there will be 8 recitals until the 14th.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced a robust slate of playwright commissions through Manhattan Theatre Club's new partnership with the Edgerton Foundation, as well as a new round of commissions supported by ongoing partnerships with Bobbie Olsen and other donors.

 The Wooster Group’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, has been extended by two weeks. Performances will now run through November 20 at The Performing Garage (33 Wooster Street), with an official opening on October 26, 2021. 

Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group and Chris Levine Theatre Productions are inviting YOU to enter Count Aldea's manor for the first time in over 600 years...Exposing you to the evil, dark and sexy secrets hiding deep within a Vampire's blackened heart, and lurking around every cobwebbed-corner of his ancient lair of nightmares!

With libreto, lyrics and direction by Ze Henrique de Paula and original music and musical direction by Fernanda Maia, the language used is inspired by German cabarets, strongly referenced in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil. George Orwell's Animal Farm takes place on a farm led initially by Mr. Jones. However, dissatisfied with the domination, the animals decide to make a revolution. They organize and expel Mr. Jones from the farm, as they no longer accept being treated as human slaves. Pigs now lead the farm, considering themselves the most intelligent animals. One of the century's greatest writers, Orwell paints a stark portrayal of power's relationship to the individual and society and its processes.

Stage Director George Ferencz (1947-2021), passed away on September 14 following a long illness according to his wife of 35 years, Sally Lesser. For over a half century, Ferencz was a beloved fixture of New York’s Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatre scenes.

With the return of live theater in New York underway, Fiasco Theater has announced its 2021–22 season. This season features the dynamic ensemble work and inventive reimagining of classics that has defined Fiasco’s work since its inception, as well as an expansion into work on new plays and musicals.

With the return of live theater in New York underway, Fiasco Theater is delighted to announce its 2021–22 season. This season features the dynamic ensemble work and inventive reimagining of classics that has defined Fiasco's work since its inception, as well as an expansion into work on new plays and musicals, and the start of several new reading, performance, and development processes.

The season will focus on conservation and recovery, as Loft is one of the few NoHo Arts District theatres to make it through the pandemic. The season's theme is de novo — anew, from the beginning. 

Irondale, an artistically ambitious think-tank for cutting edge, artist-driven theater, opens their doors to the public after more than sixteen months of COVID-related closures for a season of works to transport, provoke, and educate.

Learn more about the full season, and how to purchase tickets, here!

The title “Sound Of Music” is derived from the Pythagorean theory of musica universalis or the “music of the spheres” wherein Pythagoreas states that if objects in motion create sound then the planets forever in motion must forever produce sound.

Following its world premiere at Vienna’s prestigious Wiener Festwochen, The Wooster Group’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, will open in New York at The Performing Garage (33 Wooster Street).

La Compañía Nacional de Teatro del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) presentará el remontaje La panadería, propuesta escénica surgida a partir del laboratorio actoral inspirado en Der Brotladen, de Bertolt Brecht, con versión y dirección de Octavio Michel, en conmemoración del 65 aniversario luctuoso del dramaturgo alemán. 

La Compañía Nacional de Teatro del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) presentará el remontaje La panadería, propuesta escénica surgida a partir del laboratorio actoral inspirado en Der Brotladen, de Bertolt Brecht, con versión y dirección de Octavio Michel, en conmemoración del 65 aniversario luctuoso del dramaturgo alemán.

Para Arnold Belkin, creador visual originario de Canadá y naturalizado mexicano, el arte consistía en la capacidad más pura e inherente del hombre: “Un instrumento de lucha por la evolución pacífica y el engrandecimiento espiritual del género humano”. La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través del Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), conmemoran el 29 aniversario luctuoso del pintor, escultor y escenógrafo este 3 de julio, en el marco de la campaña “Contigo en la distancia”.