Musical theater giants from Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green to John Kander and Fred Ebb have been drawn to “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opus.

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 ...

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 ...

Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne What might be a suitable 21st-century response to ...

I was struck by Robert Gottlieb’s question in his dance column last week, “How can educated and sophisticated viewers react I was struck by Robert Gottlieb’s question in his dance column last week, ...

Rory Kinnear stars in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's lusty lowlife musical at the National Theatre, the first London revival in over 20 years. By Stephen Dalton A heady ...

Sinuous and sensual, Ute Lemper is back at the Cafe Carlyle re-creating the dark allure of German cabaret in the mid-'20s. Tossing aside her red feather boa, the slim and stately German diva offers an ...

LoveMusik’s Bertolt Brecht is played—a trifle overplayed—by David Pittu as a thieving, unwashed bully (which is probably on the money). Mr. Pittu’s loathsome, misogynistic Brecht comes closest to a ...