Bertolt Brecht

McManus: Republican 'autopsy' reveals a divide in the party

2013-03-20 00:00:00

It's never too early to start thinking about the next presidential race — especially if you're a political party that has managed to lose the popular vote in five of the last six elections, as the Republican Party has. Hence the remarkable...

Christa Wolf relives a public scandal in the novel 'City of Angels'

2013-01-31 15:15:00

-------------------- City of Angels Or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud A Novel Christa Wolf Translated from the German by Damion Searls Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 316 pp., $27 -------------------- Christa Wolf's final book, "City of Angels, or, The...

Album review: Fiona Apple's 'The Idler Wheel ...'

2012-06-19 16:37:42

Critic's Notebook: In Václav Havel's plays, politics was personal

2012-01-15 00:00:00

Vaclav Havel, a playwright with political passion

2011-12-20 16:33:07

Theater review: 'I've Never Been So Happy' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

2011-10-10 16:32:55

Art review: 'Asco: Elite of the Obscure, 1972-1987' at LACMA

2011-09-09 16:33:15

Theater review: 'Cabaret' at UCLA's Freud Playhouse

2011-09-15 16:33:01

The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 1: A suicide rocks the esteemed literary journal

2010-09-02 16:34:44

A conversation: Christopher Hampton revisits 'Tales from Hollywood'

2010-10-13 16:32:53

Theater review: â€˜Tales From Hollywoodâ€™ at the Odyssey Theatre

2010-10-21 16:32:46

The Spotlight: The birthday party in 'Tales From Hollywood' at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

2010-11-30 16:32:42

British director John Doyle reawakened Bertolt Brecht 's parable for our greed-ravaged era. Nathaniel Stookey's eclectic music and ACT's adventurous resident company only deepened the artfully apocalyptic vision.

2010-12-17 11:37:10

Shadows and Fog (1992) Allen's homage to German Expressionist cinema is filled with music by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill . Listen carefully and you'll hear " Alabama Song" during the scene when a circus clown ( John Malkovich ) is searching frantically for his sword-swallowing girlfriend ( Mia

2008-08-26 15:39:40

"Happy End, a Melodrama with Songs" at Raven Theatre. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's dark musical about a 1920s Chicago mobster, the reform-minded Salvation Army lieutenant who loves him and the Christmas Eve confrontation that changes their lives.

2006-12-19 14:37:48