Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is set to challenge its performers and audiences, just as a once-banned Brecht would have liked. By David Belcher As a playwright and director ...

For Megan Carmitchel, Michael Cusimano and Frankie Errington, their new Chalk Circle Collective theater production company began with a conversation — and a dilemma. “Michael came to me with a ...

“Constellations” marks the second production by Chalk Circle Collective, a daring, peripatetic theater company that debuted last fall with a thrilling staging of “The Turn of the Screw.” ...

The play Caucasian Chalk Circle was written in 1944 by German playwright, Bertolt Brecht. Set in the Caucasus region (hence the name) at the end of World War II, it follows Grusha, a maid to a ...

Because that may not have been the best opener to share with Doyle as we stood in the American Conservatory Theater for the world premiere of his sparkling adaptation of Brecht's "Circle." ...

What’s going on with Savitri Mahabir’s (CCH Pounder) circle of rice? And how does it relate to the giant chalk circle drawing that appears in Washington Square Park during the botched kidnapping?

So run the opening lines, delivered by a nine-strong chorus of narrators, of Chris Bush’s new version of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948), staged in Doncaster as part of the National ...