Bertholt Brecht News Today

Hot on the heels of her debut novel The Family String, South Australian author Denise Picton brings us a new and hilariously uplifting tale – The Knighton Women’s Compendium.

The UK must arrange a hostage swap to save Vladimir Kara-Murza, a heroic British-Russian journalist, from the Kremlin’s regime

LEN POWER reviews the immense "Children’s Crusade” concert at Fitters’ Workshop.

John David Minnich seeks to understand how trade policies fueled China’s rise and continue to determine geopolitical winners and losers.

MIT graduate student John David Minnich created a dataset revealing strong evidence of foreign technology transfer regulations showing up in a cluster of “objectively strategically important industries,” but not in others, like semiconductors, affecting China's economic leverage.

Lucas Hnath’s societal critique, based on his own mother’s kidnapping, pushes beyond cliché at Berkeley Rep.

London School of Ballet prodigy Michael Clark saw beauty in the moves he witnessed when attending punk gigs as a kid in the late 1970s.

Dwal Ġodda is a community theatre group based in the village of Għargħur. The troupe’s history goes back to 1970 with about 400 performances over the year

Theo Bleckmann and brass quartet the Westerlies. Bleckmann’s elastic tenor has graced everything from Weimar cabaret revues to Meredith Monk, Kate Bush projects to the sound design for the film Men in Black. That breadth makes him an ideal collaborator for the Westerlies, who are not known for respecting genre-imposed musical boundaries. The program here includes material from Woody Guthrie, Bertholt Brecht and Joni Mitchell, among others, plus a handful of originals. Without a rhythm...