Word: bertolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Levine's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Man is Man is innovative and coherent, engaging and frightening--everything experimental theater should...
...drama department at Manhattan's ritzy Dalton School is so politically correct that a recent production of Bertolt Brecht's classic The Good Woman of Sichuan, the story of a young woman who disguises herself as a man, was titled The Good Person of Sichuan. Watch for other revisions in these hypersensitive times...
...BEST THING ABOUT TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD is its subject. Christopher Hampton's 1982 play focuses on leading German literary emigres who settled in the film capital in the '30s and '40s, namely Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann and his brother Heinrich (along with Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon von Horvath, who never really made it to America but serves as fictionalized narrator). Yet an impressive cast -- Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Sinead Cusack -- cannot lift this PBS American Playhouse adaptation much above elegant name dropping. Despite snatches of Ragtime-esque fantasy and an ending that pays homage to Sunset Boulevard, the drama...
...COMPLETE OVERHAUL of the NCAA would prevent the systematic exploitation of college athletes. That will happen when the influence of TV cash coffers is no longer preeminent. That will happen when deep-seated attitudes about the role of college athletes make a 180-degree turn. That will happen, as Bertolt Brecht once wrote, on "St. Nevercome...
...Like Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo, this nonsensical play derides those who use the idea of "science" for commercial exploitation. Despondent because people no longer accept any gifts, Santa Claus (Joel Rainey) turns to Death (Ian Lithgow) for advice. Death proposes that Santa find another line of work--namely, selling knowledge. He suggests that Claus use the buzzword "scientific" to peddle his non-existent wares. "Why say fantastic when you mean scientific?" Death asks. Soon he has Santa selling stock in a "wheel mine." The plot becomes even more convoluted after this. Death and Santa exchange outfits...