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I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...

The haunting strains of Kurt Weill’s music for The Threepenny Opera are an indelible part of American popular culture — and, for those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 60s, so are Marc Blitzstein’s ...

An innovative new 2-part radio production of Brecht’s timeless anti-war play with songs. A narrator observes from present day Ukraine, and unconventional techniques mirror Brecht’s “alienation effect” ...

Even so, they add, the Brecht legacy is shaky, as a result of problems that have nothing to do with Mr. Fuegi’s book. Broadway theaters shy away from Brecht, whose plays require large casts and ...