Bertolt Brecht

Far From Heaven Stays Strictly Earthbound; Classic Stage Company Revives Caucasian Chalk Circle

Clive

Painfully Funny Playwrights: Luck of the Irish and The Good Person of Szechuan

Kirsten Greenidge matches Brecht for bitter laughs

Baal Buster

Ethan Hawke Goes for Brecht in Clive

DIVINE SPIRIT

Taylor Mac livens up Brecht

Baal

Do You Know Jack?

Hoi Polloi open their own new theater in Clinton Hill

The Deepest Play Ever Wanders Through the Post-Apocalypse

Beware Dalvador Sali at the New Ohio Theatre

Galileo: Star Witness

F. Murray Abraham embodies Brecht's complex, compromising hero at CSC

This Week in the Voice: Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out

This week in the Voice, out today: Chris Parker details the Feds' crackdown on online gambling. He says of players' hopes: "When you've turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel like you can do it again. There's faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it's delusion. But for a professio ... More >>

Galileo

The Threepenny Opera Enters the Dead Zone

Robert Wilson whips out his embalming fluid at BAM

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

The Threepenny Opera comes to BAM

The American Films of Mad Genius Fritz Lang Expand Genres

Whither Germany?

Norman Mailer Throws a Block Party, Martha Raye Tries to Spoil It

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 4, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 29 Mailer's Street Scene: Renewal on Sunday By Stephanie Harrington When Norman Mailer gives a party in the Village, even the elements hang in for the old burgomaster. Last Sunday the air was soft and invitin ... More >>

Holograms and Moon Shots at 2010's Under the Radar Festival

Plus: half-naked Brecht!

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson Cooked Some Great Burghers For Knickerbocker Holiday

Brecht, Godard, and Duvivier on DVD

Kuhle Wampe

Galileo, Peered Through the Wrong Lense By Milk Can

Meryl Streep Stands Out as Musical Theater Great in Theater of War

Voice Critic This Close To Grammy Victory!

VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN

Keep the Living Theatre alive

The Paradox Man

More than half a century after his death, composer Kurt Weill still provokes strong reactions

Mail-Ardor Bride

Expressionist vaudeville meets the musical, via Weill-Lenya letters

The Libertine

Sleaze, decadence, and suicide, Brecht-style

Hang Time

A Streep Cart Named Desire

Meryl as Mother Courage: All there, but maybe a little short of Brecht

Monday 8/7 and Tuesday 8/8

Horoscope

Louisville Sluggers

Politics gets the better of art at this year's Humana fest

In Les Freres Corbusier's New Musical, Robert Moses Takes On Old Combatants

The Cunningham Aesthetic

No Longer Enfant, Still Terrible

European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

The Side Stage

Beyond Neurosis

What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

All About the Benjamins

The Bookworm and the Angel

Dictator Tots

Mirror Men

Made in U.S.A.

Waiting for Twilight

Peace = Patriotism

A User’s Guide to Antiwar Activism

Local Heroes

Crude Can Be Good—If It’s Subtle Enough

The Weill Party

The 20th Century’s Most Influential Composer Turns 100

Downtown Canon Fodder

Our Theatrical Century—II

Theater's Been in Flux All Century Long, So What's Left for It in the Next?

Our Theatrical Century

After 100 Years of Experiment, What'll the Theater Do for an Encore?

Bourgeois Nights

A Deep Brecht

Can Poor B.B. Still Affect Our Alien Nation?