Bertolt Brecht News

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is set to present the fifth production of its ninth anniversary season, The Concrete Jungle (A Chicano Horror Play) by Travyz Santos Gatz. Directed by Mitch Rosander & Ignacio Navarro, the cast of this world premiere will feature (in alphabetical order) Lemon Baardsen, Macedonia Bullington, Berenice Diaz, Kathleen Guevara, Sydney Jenkins, Jordan Klomp, Matt Lorenzo, and Alejandro Mungaray. There will be eight performances only, beginning Friday, April 8, and running through Saturday, April 23.

NTPA Repertory Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its new ground-breaking production of Urinetown: the Musical with gender-inclusive casting. Winner of three Tony Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of capitalism, social irresponsibility, bureaucracy and musical theatre itself!

Director Constantine Costi pulls off the seemingly impossible of squeezing in a 17 piece orchestra, under the Baton of Brian Castles-Onion, a dancer and 6 singers into the small space of the Old Fitz Theatre to present an entrancing interpretation of Kurt Weill (Music) and Bertolt Brecht's (text/lyrics) THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS ballet with songs and MAHAGONNY SONGSPEIL song cycle.

The Exponential Festival presents and promotes experimental performances created by New York-based artists working across all mediums. This year, performances span January to October, online and in-person, as a result of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 upending our original January intentions.

Burning Coal Theatre Company will present its production of The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by David Edgar, April 7 - 24, 2022. 

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is set to present the fifth production of its ninth anniversary season, The Concrete Jungle (A Chicano Horror Play) by Travyz Santos Gatz.

New York City Opera will present Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's thrilling double bill, The Seven Deadly Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel, for the first time ever told as one story, a tragic fable for today.

Scribner has announced the April 2022 reissue of the award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange, in celebration of its upcoming Broadway revival by Tony nominated choreographer and director, Camille A. Brown.

Roaring with charisma, wit and a killer cast, Victorian Opera presents Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann’s anti-capitalist musical comedy, Happy End, from 23 – 26 March at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse. 

In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

Roaring with charisma, wit and a killer cast, Victorian Opera presents Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann's anti-capitalist musical comedy, Happy End, from 23 – 26 March at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse.

Inspired by a true story, Melissa Reeves creates a whimsical study of small-town Australia, Cold War fear-mongering, friendship and betrayal, laced with dry humour and keenly observed relationships.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that theater director and poet David Levin has died at age 87.

This month, The Studio Theatre™ Tierra del Sol (806 San Marino Drive, The Villages, FL) will open the third production of its sixth season, Urinetown, The Musical, with Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann, Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis. The production will be staged at The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol (806 San Marino Drive, The Villages, FL).

 Following a sold-out run this fall, The Wooster Group’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, will return to New York for a special limited engagement. Performances will run February 18 to March 12, 2022, at The Performing Garage (33 Wooster Street).

Theatro São Pedro premieres the season of the opera The Seven Deadly Sins, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

Running from January 13 to February 5, 2022, To  Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 60 newly preserved features and shorts from 19 countries, many having world or  North American premieres and presented in original versions not seen since their initial  theatrical releases.

The North American tour of Rogers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! began performances at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN on November 9, 2021 and will continue to play over 25 cities during the 2021-2022 season including stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago and Nashville, and more. Read the reviews!

The Catastrophic Theatre has announced another season of  championing avant-garde plays and playwrights rarely produced in Houston.

From rock to Rossini, Victorian Opera announces its Season 2022 with a year of undiscovered gems, thrilling epics and two world premieres. The state opera company presents eight productions, including three Australian operas.