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Faithfull presents two sides of herself in her two act show Don't Smoke in Bed! Act One is a cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
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...