TY - BOOK ID - 77920423 TI - Brecht, Broadway and United States theatre PY - 2007 SN - 1443810185 9781443810180 9781847183484 1847183484 PB - Newcastle, UK Cambridge Scholars Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Theater KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - History KW - Brecht, Bertolt, KW - Brecht, Berthold Friedrich KW - Brecht, Bertolt. KW - Brecht, Bertholt KW - Brecht, Bert KW - Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich KW - Stage history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77920423 AB - Not long after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Bertolt Brecht's name was on the lips of many writing about Broadway. Invoked knowingly-but not always knowledgeably-"Brecht" became something between marketing strategy and erudite justification for another season of Broadway musicals, another ignominy endured by the German playwright whose epic theater has only seldom been understood in the United States. To say that Brechtian and Broadway theatrical traditions represent diverge... ER -