Unconventional and provocative: As the artistic director of Berlin's Volksbühne - the "People's Theater" - Frank Castor wrote theater history. Here's why his productions were so unusual. Frank Castorf ...
Frank Castorf, the controversial German theatre director who staged Richard Wagner's "Twilight of the Gods" at this year's Bayreuth Festival, poked fun at audience for booing the premiere on Wednesday ...
BERLIN — “Bye Chris” and “Welcome home Frank” proclaimed stickers on the lampposts around the Haus der Berliner Festspiele here before Tuesday’s performance of “Faust,” a production by Frank Castorf ...
Production directed by Frank Castorf and presented by the ensemble of Berlin's Volksbühnebased; it is a play based on Tennessee Williams's A Steetcar Named Desire. Frank Castorf, a star of European ...
The cast of Richard Wagner's "The Valkyrie" rehearses before the start of the Bayreuth Fest earlier this month in Germany. Russian conductor Kirill Petrenko received standing ovations at the end of ...
German theater director Frank Castorf is known for scandalous productions. Now he's being sued by Bertolt Brecht's heirs for not sticking to the original script. Is theater about trying new things or ...
In Britain, Wagner's Ring in the composer's bicentenary year has already brought acclaimed cycles at the Longborough festival and the BBC Proms. In the wider Wagnerian cosmos, however, the most ...
BERLIN — “Bye Chris” and “Welcome home Frank” proclaimed stickers on the lampposts around the Haus der Berliner Festspiele here before Tuesday’s performance of “Faust,” a production by Frank Castorf ...