Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding two-part TV movie about Bertolt Brecht are old and new interviews with the playwright’s collaborators that hold a fascination light years away ...

A review of 25 years of theatre work by the Berliner Ensemble dedicated mostly to plays by Bertolt Brecht Interviews with stage hands and lighting technicians provide ...

Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is set to challenge its performers and audiences, just as a once-banned Brecht would have liked. By David Belcher As a playwright and director, Bertolt ...

Revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht gets the standard-issue TV biopic treatment in this two-parter saved only by 'Reds'-style interviews. Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding ...

Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in 'Brecht,' his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. By Stephen Dalton Bertolt Brecht was lucky there was ...