His avant-garde work, short on character and plot but long on verbal high jinks, could be irreverent, even goofy, but it was always intellectually serious. By A.J. Goldmann A.J. Goldmann is an ...

On July 16, German theatre and artistic director Claus Peymann died at the age of 88. Rarely has the death of a theatre figure received so much attention in national politics, the cultural world and ...

Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German ...

On May 15 the artistic director of Theater Aachen, Elena Tzavara, hosted a gala celebrating the theatre’s 200th anniversary. The event was well attended by theatre devotees, sponsors and personalities ...

But she has also challenged the notion of integration as it is propagated by German politics. In 2016, the theater created the Exil-Ensemble as a platform for professional actors forced to live in ...

Musical theater in Little Germany, 1840-1918 : an imported European tradition. Early struggles, operatic beginnings, and the development of the German theater in New York City, 1840-1872 ; Musical ...