Brechtfest VI, a celebration of German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, returns to New Orleans this February with two nights of music, spoken word, and puppetry. Hosted at the Twilight Room at the ...
The fifth New Orleans BrechtFest, a tribute in song, poetry and puppetry to the writer Bertolt Brecht, returns to the Allways Lounge in New Orleans on April 1 and 2. Brecht is best known today as the ...
Baal is Bertolt Brecht’s first play, written in 1918, and in later life he had no illusions about it. Just prior to his death in 1956, he said: “I admit and I warn you—the play lacks wisdom.” What the ...