Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) left Berlin in February 1933, the day after the Reichstag fire, an attack on the home of the German Parliament. President Paul von Hindenberg had named Hitler Chancellor on January 30 in the mistaken belief that "the housepainter," as Brecht called him, could be controlled. On February 4, Hitler had granted himself […] The post Brecht and the History Behind 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PM on June 27, 2019