The Brecht Yearbook
1) The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 43 (2018) was published in October 2018. See the table of contents here.Communications from the IBS
The IBS journal has shifted from a print publication to a freely accessible online journal / blog, updated about every 4-5 months!
Das Brecht-Archiv / The Brecht Archive (Berlin)
Check the new website of the Brecht Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin: http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivabteilungen/bertolt-brecht-archiv/
Here you can also get access to the library holdings of the Brecht-Archive (OPAC) as well as the archival holdings (Archivdatenbank):
https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/bibliothek/archivbibliothek-bertolt-brecht-archiv.htm
New Brecht books
Brecht and the Writer's Workshop: Fatzer and Other Dramatic Projects. Ed. by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland (London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2019).
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht. Ed. and trans. by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn (London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2018).
Ernst Josef Aufricht, And the Shark, He Has Teeth: A Theatre Producer's Notes. Trans. by Ben Block, intro. by Marc Silberman (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018)
David Zoob, Brecht: A Practical Handbook (London: Nick Hern Books, 2018)
Ela Gezen, Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literatur: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018)
Jost Hermand, Die Aufhaltsame Wirkungslosigkeit eines Klassikers: Brecht Studien (Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2018)
Angelos Koutsourakis, Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
Questions about performance rights of Brecht's plays should be directed to the German Brecht publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag: suhrkamp.de/theater-verlag/vertragsanfragen_898.html
For English-language performance rights, here.
Drama Online is a subscription portal for Internet access to the works of major playwrights, including Bertolt Brecht in English translation. For information, see:
http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/
and search for "Brecht"
Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography
Check this new website with over 2900 entries if you want to know whether there is an English version of Brecht's plays, poems, songs, stories, or essays: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/BrechtGuide/
The digital Brecht Yearbook, vols. 1-38 (1971-2013) / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch digital, Bd. 1-38 (1971-2013): http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/German.BrechtYearbook
KURT WEILL FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM – Deadline 1 November
Financial support worldwide to not-for-profit organizations for performances of musical works by Kurt Weill and Marc Blitzstein, to individuals and not-for-profit organizations for scholarly research pertaining to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and Marc Blitzstein, and to not-for-profit organizations for relevant educational initiatives. For more information, see: http://www.kwf.org/pages/grants-a-prizes.html