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Theater Ten Ten (New York City) presents:
Dorothy Lane (aka Elisabeth Hauptmann), Happy End
the Brecht/Weill musical adapted by Michael Feingold, directed by David Fuller,
with music direction by Michael Harren
April 27 - May 27, 2007
Theater Ten Ten is located at 1010 Park Avenue, between 84th & 85th Street
Reservations: 212 / 288-3246, ext. 3
Or online: www.theater1010.com
The Classical Theatre Lab (Los Angeles) presents: The Resistable
Rise of Arturo Ui
in the translation by George Tabori
Director: Gregory Van Dare
Music: Willem Breuker
starring Nick Salamone as Arturo Ui
Opens Nov. 16, runs through Dec. 10, 2006
Los Angeles Area Veterans Artists Alliance (LAAVAA)
10858 Culver Blvd.
for ticket information, call (323) 960-5691
The Vitalist Theatre in Chicago presents: Mother Courage (in
the David Hare adaptation)
Runs through November 5, 2006
For information: 347 / 804-6509
www.vitalisttheatre.org
The New York Public Theater presents a new production of Mother
Courage and Her Children
August 8 - September 3, 2006, trans. by Tony
Kushner and directed by George C. Wolfe. Meryl Streep stars in the role
of Mother Courage.
For information click here.
The Threepenny Opera in New York City
Previews begin March 24, 2006
New translation by Wallace Shawn
Directed by Scott Elliott
with Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer, Cyndi Lauper, Nellie McKay
Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54
254 West 54th Street
For information: www.3pennyonbroadway.com/
New play about Brecht to open in Washington DC in 2006
Silent Partners, a stage adaptation by Charles Marowitz of Eric Bentley's The
Brecht Memoir will take place at the Scena Theatre, Washington D.C. in April
2006, directed by Marowitz. It will feature British actor Barry Dennen in the
role of Bertolt Brecht. Sets will be by British designer, Richard Montgomery.
Marowitz is the author of over a dozen stage works and was co-director with
Peter Brook of the Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group, which introduced
the works of Antonin Artaud to the British public. He is a member of the Artistic
Directorate of Shakespeare's Globe on London's South Bank.
Silent Partners deals with the curious relationship that grew up between Brecht
and Eric Bentley, translator and popularizer of Brecht's work in America, over
a period of some fifteen years. Brecht and Bentley worked closely together in
Santa Monica, California during Brecht's exile in the USA in the late '40s.
The Visions of Simone Machard
By Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation by H. and E. Rank
Miskin Touring in a guest appearance at the Acorn Studio of Hackney Empire (London)
30 March – 1 April 2006
Contact information: Tom Cooper (England) 07734 / 969 653
Tickets online at: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Open Circle Theatre at the Round House Theater (Washington DC metro area)
3-24 July 2005
Directed by Grady Weatherford and Monique Holt and featuring actors Suzanne
Richard and Scot McKenzie.
Produced in association with "Quest: arts for everyone" and sponsored
by Audio Description Associates and Sign Language Associates, this production
incorporates the visual language of deaf culture, using ASL and gestural communication
throughout.
For times and ticket info:
www.opencircletheatre.org/performances.htm
Mother Courage and Her Children
Rutgers University, Newark NJ
April 13, 14, 15, 16 at 7 PM and Sunday, April 17 at 2:30 PM
Tannis Kowalchuk in the role of Mother Courage in a student production of one
of the great plays by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Tim Raphael.
http://theatre.njit.edu/newsite/season_info.php
Revising Germany, a new play by Fred Newman
Directed by Gabrielle Kurlander
Bertolt Brecht's intimate relationships with four influential women -
Helene Weigel, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Ruth Berlau and Margarete Steffin -
are the focus of this intense drama. A montage of performed
conversation, music, dance and songs - sung by a mysterious Lotte
Lenya-esque character - Revising Germany re-examines German history, as
well as the legacy of 20th century political theatre.
March 11 - April 10, 2005
Castillo Theatre
543 West 42nd Street
New York City
For information, see:
www.castillo.org/production_revisinggermany.html
Brian Boyles presents Bertolt Brecht: Five Visions, Five Songs
November 18, 2004, 7 pm
Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.sideshowgallery.com
Playwright and poet Brian Boyles will be presenting dramatizations of Brecht's
"Five Visions," along with performances of five Brecht songs. Jessica
Slote, the American String Conspiracy, David Tirosh, and more bring to light
underappreciated work by Brecht in both mediums in service of the question:
"What Makes Political Art Last?" Bruce Weber's No Chance Ensemble
will also perform original work. Contact: rise2set@yahoo.com
for more info.
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PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY
Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director
presents
The Prospect Theater Company (New York City) presents:
MAN IS MAN
by Bertolt Brecht
in a new translation by Marcella Nowak
directed by Jackson Gay
April 17 - May 9, 2004
at the West End Theatre, 263 W. 86th St.
For tickets visit www.Theatermania.com or call 212-352-3101
Nathaniel Nicco-Annan, Choreographer
Erik Flatmo, Set Design
Jenny Mannis, Costume Design
Thomas Dunn, Lighting Design
Aaron Meicht, Original Music and Sound Design
Featuring:
Jennifer Bruno, Sarah Elliott, Robyn Ganeles, Brad Heberlee,
Matthew Humphreys, Austin Jones, Frank Liotti, Lisa Louttit,
Mark Mattek, Nathaniel Nicco-Annan, Paul Paglia,
Dara Seitzman, Patricia Spahn, Joe Vena, Marnye Young
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Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre
The Threepenny Opera
David Fuller, Director
Reprise of Fall 2003 production from 18 June to 15 August 2004.
330 Bowery (Corner of Bond/East 2nd Street)
NYC, 10012
www.jeancocteaurep.org
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CURIOUS THEATER BRANCH'S Rhinocerous Theater Festival presents "POWERbrecht-down2004" at 7 pm Oct. 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 2004 in Chicago.
7001 N. Glenwood (by the Morse el stop)
Reservations and information: 773 / 274-6660
POWERbrecht down2004 features JENNY MAGNUS and BEAU O'REILLY paying timely tribute to the incisive wit and colorful humor of the earlier Bertolt Brecht through poems, a song and "The Beggar or the Dead Dog," adapted and directed by Stefan Brun.
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Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama and School of Music
announces the Pittsburgh premiere of
Brecht / Weill's "Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny"
Director: Gregory Lehane
Musical director: Robert Page
Janurary 29 till February 1, 2004
Call the School of Drama box office at (412) 268-2407 for tickets and times.
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Planet Ant Theatre (Detroit Metro area) announces:
Bertolt Brecht, "Lehrstücke"
October 31 to November 23, 2003
Director: Eric W. Maher
Original Music: Dan Kahn
For information: 313 / 365 4948
Planet Ant Theatre is a professional theatre located at:
2357 Caniff Ave.
Hamtramck, MI 48212
www.planetant.com
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Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble / North American Cultural Laboratory
presents in New York City: "10 Brecht Poems"
World premier of an anti-war theatre performance by the two-woman ensemble
Tannis Kowalchuk and Leese Walker
March 21, 22, 29, April 4 & 5 at 8:00 PM
March 30 at 2:00 PM
The Brecht Forum
122 W. 27th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues), 10th floor
Tickets are $15 or $12 students/seniors and can be reserved by calling
(212) 946-5734.
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Schweyk in the Second World War
There will be a production of Brecht's 'Schweyk in the Second World
War' at the Library Theatre in Manchester, UK, from February 7-March 25, 2003.
For more information, visit the theater company's Web site at: http://www.librarytheatre.com/diary-show.php?id=171.
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Brecht Returns to the Coronet
Fifty five years ago, Brecht's play Galileo, starring Charles Laughton,
was premiered at the Coronet Theatre in Hollywood. On Monday, November 4th,
Brecht returns to the Coronet in a staged reading of Silent Partners - a new
play written and directed by Charles Marowitz.
The play is a dramatization of Eric Bentley's A Brecht Memoir, which
deals with the curous and sometimes troubled relationship between Bertolt Brecht
and his primary translator and chief prosletyzer, Eric Bentley. Barry Dennen
is playing Bertolt Brecht and Paul Woodward the role of Eric Eentley.
The Coronet Theatre is located at 366 La Cienega, in Hollywood, CA. The reading
begins at 8:00 pm. Admission is free. For reservations: 310 / 317-6541.
A reception will follow the reading.
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The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Limited engagement begins on Oct. 3, 2002
Guest director Simon McBurney the English avant-garde troupe Théâtre
de Complicité, will produce the play at Tony Randall's National Actors
Theater 3 in its new home at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace
University in Lower Manhattan The stellar cast includes Al Pacino as Ui as well
as Tony Randall, Lothaire Bluteau, Steve Buscemi, Billy Crudup, Charles Durning,
John Goodman, Chazz Palminteri
Click here
for a review from the New York Times.
Click here
for a review in German from the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
A new English adaptation by Andy de la Tour; directed by award-winning Phil
Willmott and starring leading West End actor Peter Polycarpou as Ui
For more information, see:
www.suzannarosenthal.com
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Brecht on Brecht
Presented by Theater By The Blind
June 14-30, 2002
The Blue Heron Art Center
123 E. 24th Street
New York, NY
For further information, visit their Web site at: http://www.tbtb.org.
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Happy End in London by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
from the orginal German play by Dorothy Lane
in a translation by Michael Feingold
Tuesday May 14 - Saturday June 8
Thirsty Dog Theatre
Director Daniel Ghossain
Musical Director Nic Le Breuilly
At the Central Space Theatre
Central Station
37 Wharfdale Road London N1
Box Office: 020 7278 3294
For further information call Kevin Wilson or Mark White on 020 7721 7621
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BrechtFest 2002
Presented by the Manitoba Theatre Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
January 10-26, 2001
For more information, visit their Web site at:
http://www.brechtfest.com.
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Good Woman of Setzuan in Chicago
Presented by Stage Left Theatre
As Translated by Eric Bentley
Adapted and Directed by David Schmitz
Previews: April 12-15, 2002
Regular Run: April 16-May 25th, 2002
At the Stage Left Theatre, 3408 North Schffield, Chicago, IL
For tickets of more information, call (773) 883-8830
or email SLTChigago@aol.com
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Mother Courage
Presented by the Steppenwolf Theatre
Directed by Eric Simonson
Previews: September 3-22, 2001
Regular Run: September 25- November 4, 2001
For more information, contact the Steppenwolf Box Office: 1-312-335-1650
1650 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60600
www.steppenwolf.org
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Helene Weigel Films
Under the curatorship of Werner Hecht, the Literaturforum im Brechthaus (Berlin)
screens a series of films featuring Helene Weigel to commemorate the centenary
of her birth.
Monday, July 24 2000
Helene Weigel, Film Porträt (Christa Mühl / Werner Hecht,
1973)
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar (with Weigel as Carrar in the staging of
the Berliner Ensemble; Egon Monk, 1953)
Tuesday, July 25
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (with Weigel as Anna Fierling based on in the staging of the Berliner Ensemble by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel; Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Palitzsch, 1961)
Wednesday, July 26
Helene Weigel - Porträt (Georg Friedel, 1967)
Ursula oder Das unwerte Leben (Weigel as commentator voice for a documentary
about handicapped children; Reni Mertens and Walter Marti, 1966)
Die zwei Söhne (Weigel as commentator voice in the adaptation of Brecht's
short story; Helmut Nitzschke, 1970)
Thursday, July 27
Helene Weigel - Porträt (Heiderose Leopold, 2000)
Die Gesichte der Simone Machard (Weigel as Madame Soupeau; Manfred Karge
and Matthias Langhoff, 1968)
Friday July 28
Die Mutter (Weigel as Pelagea Wlassowa in the staging by Bertolt Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble; Manfred Wekwerth, 1958)
For additional information: www.lfbrecht.de
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BRECHT in L.A.
Written and directed by Rick Mitchell
Presented by the Urban Ensemble (in assoc. with the Theater of Hope).
Bitter Truth Playhouse, 11050 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, California
Box office (818) 755-7900, ext. 4
or theatreofhope@earthlink.net
Opening night Nov. 11th 7:00pm.
Performances: Nov. 13, 15 & 16, 8:00pm; Nov. 18, 7:00pm
Tickets $15 (discounts for students, groups, etc.)
Above shows are part of the Edge of the World Theater Festival.
Further performances Thursdays and Fridays, 8:00pm, Sundays, 78:30pm
through Dec. 21.
Synopsis:
Radical playwright Bertolt Brecht tries, with little success, to work for Hollywood
(and Fritz Lang) and Broadway as WWII rages on, atomic bombs are droped on Japan,
and the FBI eavesdrops on Brecht and his cohorts. Juggling mistresses, family,
work, and collaboration with Charles Laughton, Brecht finally has a play reach
Broadway, but not before testifying in front of
HUAC just before the play's opening. At the center of the play is Brecht's relationship
(both artistic and personal) with Ruth Berlau. The play is both dramatic and
comic, utilizing (and at times, twisting) Brechtian elements.
The Urban Ensemble, a critically-acclaimed company dedicated to performing new, cutting-edge, class-conscious theater, recently relocated to Los Angeles from the East Coast.
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Presented by the Yale University Dramatic Association
Directed by Jay Scheib
At the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, CT
February 21-24
Tickets available from the Yale University Dramatic Association
(203) 432-1212, or email mollie.goldstein@yale.edu
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Presented by the Old Brick Playhouse Apprentices
At the Old Brick Playhouse in Elkins, West Virginia
March 22,23,24,30 & 31 at 8pm
March 25 at 3pm
Tickets available by contacting the Old Brick Playhouse
(304) 637-9090 or email: oldbrick@citynet.net
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Presented by Prop Thtr
With Jenny Magnus as Joan Dark and Jonathan Lavan as Mauler
directed by Stefan Brun
Gala opening: February 13th, playing February 15 - March 25, 2001 (possibly
April 8); Thurs-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm
At the Bailiwick Repertory, 1229 W. Belmont, Chicago Il 60657-3205;
(773) 883-1090 Box office.
for further information: (773) 486-PROP (7767)
or: brun_stefan@hotmail.com
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Royal National Theatre, London
New translation by Tanika Gupta, Directed by Stephen Powell
On tour and in the RNT Cottlesloe from 9 February 2001
details from nationaltheatre.org
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The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Presented by the Open Fist Theater Company
Opening Night: Friday, September 10th (1999) at 8:00PM
Runs September 10th - October 16th
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
At the Open Fist Theatre, 1625 N. La Brea Avenue
(between Hollywood and Sunset, ample lighted parking available)
Tickets $15.00; Opening Night Tickets: $20.00; Reservations: 323.882.6912
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The Cherub Company in London announces a new production of Brecht's adaptation of Marlowe's The Life of Edward the Second of England, directed by Andrew Visnevski with music by Julian Dawes. The production is going on tour through January to: Chipping Norton, Reading University, Horsham, Mansfield, Fareham, The Place Theatre in London, Glasgow University, and Riverside Studio 2 in London. For information, contact Ann Rau Dawes, asrd@compuserve.com
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Wings Theatre Company, Inc., a not-for-profit theater in NYC (154 Christopher Street, NY 10014). is about to open its NY premiere production of Brecht's "Good Person of Setzuan" newly adapted into English by Pulitzer Prize-winnter Tony Kushner (author of "Angels in Amerca"). The production is devised, directed and composed by Charles Geyer. It runs May 14 through June 19, Thursdays through Sundays, at 8 pm. You may contact the theater be e-mail or by phone to obtain additional information or verify any of the foregoing.
E-mail: cjeffer@brainlink.com
Phone:(212) 627-2960 or 2961
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BERKELEY, April 15, 1999 – Fifty years after its founding by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, the controversial and ground-breaking German theater group The Berliner Ensemble will make its long-awaited United States debut in Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The performances mark the company's very first appearances in the United States and will be the final performances anywhere in the world. In August 1999, the world famous company will disband forever, ending its 50 year history. The Berliner Ensemble performances at Cal Performances, in German with English supertitles, are presented in association with the Goethe-Institut, San Francisco.
For more information, please see the special page we have devoted to this announcement. Also, one can call the Cal Performances Ticket Office at (510) 642-9988 or visit the Cal Performances web site at www.calperfs.berkeley.edu.
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deep ellum ensemble celebrates Bertolt Brecht's legacy on his 100th birthday
with their production of his comedy:
Puntila and His Servant, Matti
(a people's play)
in a world premiere English translation
by deep ellum ensemble's Matthew Earnest
The Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street, SOHO; January 28 - February 15, 1998; Tuesday - Sunday
nights at 8pm. Reservations, Press Relations and all information, call 212.496.3052.
deep ellum ensemble has been granted permission by Mr. Stefan Brecht, son of the late
playwright, Bertolt Brecht, to present their own translation of Brecht's zany comedy,
Puntila and His Servant, Matti(Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti). deep ellum ensemble
has scored a major victory in securing translation rights, because as many producers know,
the Brecht estate is more than a little protective. Obtaining performance rights for an
existing translation of a Brecht play is difficult enough; making a new one is almost
unheard of. deep ellum's Puntila and His Servant, Matti, will be the second translation
of the play into English and the first by an American. deep ellum ensemble's style
combines a smattering of things, from Bunraku puppetry to American Vaudeville; from
Laban movement work to their own East Texas storytelling; and A capella singing and
chant, in many styles and forms, is always an ingredient.
contact: Ellumnyc@aol.com.
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, in cooperation with the Arbeitsstelle Bertolt Brecht at the University of Karlsruhe, planned several activities for February 1998:
the 1997/98 season
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