
In nearly all productions of Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera I had seen up to this one, I was struck by a clash between the expectations that casting and other directorial choices had develo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:51PM[SHARE]For the last full production of his first season as artistic director of Packhaustheater in Bremen, Dirk Böhling had written and directed a revue-style, 90-minute, fast-paced accumulation o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:26AM[SHARE]Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto, published in 1936, deals with the opportunistic rise of its main character, Hendrik Höfgen to become one of the leading actors, directors and theatre managers…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:21AM[SHARE]The stage, designed by Thomas Rupert, was vast and predominantly empty, the floor mainly even and sloping up at the very back. The walls were painted in shades of grey, as were the matching …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:14AM[SHARE]When Florian Battermann founded the Komödie am Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig in 2003 at the age of 30, it was then the most recent addition to the boulevard comedy theatre scene in Germany.…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]Spirit and the Dust is a play by American dramatist Noah Haidle. The world premiere of the play, in its translation into German by Barbara Christ, took place on 27th February 2026 at Deutsch…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:57AM[SHARE]The latest production in Dirk Böhling’s inaugural season as artistic director of the Packhaustheater is a further new play he wrote and directed about a famous local person: Paula Moderso…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:31PM[SHARE]Ferdinand von Schirach was born in 1964, studied law and became a noted criminal defense lawyer. He turned his extensive experience into fiction with a collection of novels, screenplays and …
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