As for European playwrights, off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company did right by Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo, " in which F.

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Ravenhill was speaking on the opening night of his version of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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They have more in common with Bertolt Brecht than with academe.

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German dramatist Bertolt Brecht harpooned the arrogance of the privileged class ("well-born stinkers") in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle, " his 1944 absurdist tale of exile, social inequality and misguided justice.

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Teresa Stratas and Elvis Costello give finely tuned, idiosyncratic performances, and at times Weinstein displays both the versatility of the composer and the bite of his frequent collaborator, Bertolt Brecht.

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When it moved off-Broadway, the hourlong work was augmented by a cabaret act performed by Durang and Weaver, "Das Lusitania Songspiel, " which parodied plays and movies in the style of Bertolt Brecht.

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In fact, by the 1960s Los Angeles had played host, however fleetingly, to a huge variety of authors, musicians and artists, among them Bertolt Brecht, Joan Didion, Jascha Heifetz, David Hockney, Huxley himself, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, Robert Motherwell, Nathanael West, Artur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

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