The first American performance of one of this writer's plays was before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on October 30, 1947.  
The first American performance of one of this writer's plays was before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on October 30, 1947.  He left the United States the next day and never returned to Hollywood, where his only success had been the screenplay for "Hangmen Also Die."  Other anti-Nazi works include the plays "Schweyk in the Second World War" and "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui."  FTP, name this playwright who wrote "The Life of Galileo," "Mother Courage and Her Children," and "The Threepenny Opera."
The first American performance of one of this writer's plays was before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on October 30, 1947.  
Bertolt Brecht