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Bertold Brecht put Marxist collectivism and dialectical materialism into his art as few other Western writers. His avidness for money? No matter. The German poet-playwright belied any doubts about his ...

Performances will take place on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30PM and Sunday at 4PM at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 524 W. 59th Street, NYC. The Seven Deadly Sins & ...

He was a serious young composer who had written astringent string quartets and atonal short operas and then burst into prominence in late 1920s Berlin with his impudent scores for "Mahagonny-Songspiel ...

On her stunning new CD The German Projekt, which features jazz-imbued arrangements of classic songs by Brecht-Weill and Friedrich Hollaender and which is being released on May 12, singer Andrea Fultz ...

For admirers she was the second coming of Mother Courage and the greatest interpreter of the Brecht-Weill songbook. For critics she was an artistic apparatchik, compromised by her loyalty to East ...

It’s a pretty safe bet that, if you walked up to 10 people on the street and asked them who Brecht and Weill were, you’d get at least eight blank stares. Maybe two people would recognize the pair’s ...