Ian McDiarmid will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time since 1985 to play the title role in a new production of Brecht's A Life of Galileo, which will begin perfor…
Mark Ravenhall's new translation of Brecht's play, A Life of Galileo, will see Ian McDiarmid perform in the title role.
Ian McDiarmid is returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time since 1985 to lead the cast of a forthcoming revival of Brecht’s A Life of Galileo. The play, which is …
F. Murray Abraham talks about his role as the 17th-century scientist Galileo Galilei in the Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo." The play looks at the pressure t…
By Judd HollanderPhotos by Joan Marcus Change is a frightening thing. This is a central theme in Bertolt Brecht's 1937 dramatic work "Galileo," presented by the Classic Stage Company, using …
F. Murray Abraham stars in a new off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's classic "Galileo." Brian Kulick, artistic director of the Classic Stage Company and the director of the play, dis…
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The scientific achievements of Galileo Galilei speak for themselves, and the artistic achievements of off-Broadway’s Galileo, which opened February 24 at Classic Stage Company, are jus…
Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, opened Feb. 23 following previews fro…
When first you enter the theatre and see Adrianne Lobel's set that is spare and dynamic, and beautifully lit by Justin Townsend, your first thought is, "I hope the play is as good as the set…
On Thursday, February 23, the Classic Stage Company production of Galileo opened its limited run, which has been extended to February 18. Opening night guests included Jack Cummings III, An…
"Galileo," a play by Bertolt Brecht that has rarely been seen in the United States, opened this week Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company and starred Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham as t…
there are glimmering in F. Murray Abraham's performance that hint that he is striving to find a character who will eventually show the various, sometimes contradictory, sides of Galileo's te…
With partisan politics injecting itself into scientific debate with dismaying frequency these days, Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo has a disturbing modern resonance. While the Classic Stage …
F. Murray Abraham stars in Brian Kulick's gently naturalistic staging of Bertolt Brecht's compelling drama about the famed astronomer at CSC.
F. Murray Abraham stars in the Classic Stage Company's revival of Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo," about the conflict between champions of progress and the church in Renaissance Italy.
Scenes from the Classic Stage Company production.
Depending on the time and the country, the 17th century science-versus-the-Church conflict in Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo" has been considered an allegory about the individual conscience again…
"Walking into the Classic Stage Company these days is a lot like drifting through space. . . ."
Doing justice to the story of a 17th century scientific luminary is a difficult task to begin with, but bringing it to life through the words of Bertolt Brecht is a theatrical challenge for …
Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht's GALILEO translated by Charles Laughton starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, runs through Sunday, March 18. The official pre…
F. Murray Abraham is too tentative as the great astronomer Galileo in an otherwise worthy CSC revival of Bertolt Brecht's epic biography.