Biography EssayBertolt Brecht is one of the great names not only of twentieth-century German literature but of modern world literature. His contribution, though varied—it includes lyrical, narra...
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The German author Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is probably the greatest German playwright of the first half of the 20th century. His works were often considered controversial because of his revolutionar...
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Bertolt Brecht's status as one of the major playwrights of the twentieth century is largely uncontested. In addition to writing a significant body of plays that are performed all over the world, Brech...
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Bertolt Brecht is one of the great names not only of twentieth-century German literature but of modern world literature. His contribution, though varied--it includes lyrical, narrative, dramatic, and ...
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In the following essay, Elsaesser argues in favor of The Threepenny Opera's merits as a great achievement in Weimar cinema despite a lawsuit filed against Pabst by Bertolt Brecht—the aut...
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Teaching The Threepenny Opera
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Tige Andrews, the Emmy-nominated character actor who portrayed a police captain in charge of a trio of hip, young crime fighters in "The Mod Squad," has died. He was 86.Andrews died Jan. 27 of card...
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Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will play Trigorin, the lover to Dianne Wiest's magnetic actress, Arkadina, in Anton Chekhov's 1896 play, The Seagull, at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street)...
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Here’s a few brief observations about Julia Roberts, now starring on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s extremely slight 1997 Three Days of Rain.
What Antonin Artaud has described as a &#...
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Here’s a few brief observations about Julia Roberts, now starring on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s extremely slight 1997 Three Days of Rain.
What Antonin Artaud has described as a &...
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I was struck by Robert Gottlieb’s question in his dance column last week, “How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art?” Even the best critics...
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Bertolt Brecht
(Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Brecht
Critical Essay by Thomas Elsaesser
'Mod Squad' actor Tige Andrews, 86, dies
