Word: brecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replaced Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S distinguished first-nighter for 23 years. Kalem, 42, spent the preceding eleven years as a book reviewer for us, and will be remembered for his cover stories on Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak and James Gould Cozzens, as well as a memorable piece on Bertolt Brecht...
...greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill, and barring the aged Sean O'Casey, the greatest living playwright anywhere. Dissenting voices might be raised for a thoughtful and clever shaper of ideas like Jean Anouilh. Yet the 20th century's three greatest playwrights as thinkers-Shaw, Brecht and Pirandello-succeeded less because they brought ideas into the theater than because they squeezed every last drop of passion out of those ideas...
...Brecht on Brecht is an exciting peek at poems, letters, scenes and songs in the treasure trove of a 20th century master of theater. A splendid company of six perched on stools gives magic to this revue-styled evening...
...Brecht on Brecht is an exciting peek at poems, letters, scenes and songs in the treasure trove of a 20th century master of theater. A splendid company of six perched on stools gives magic to this revue-styled evening...
...Brecht on Brecht is an arresting two hours with the late great German playwright, a sort of literary and dramatic revue composed of selections from his poems, letters, songs, plays and aphorisms, acted out with selfless intensity...