Born to Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world's leading visual and theatrical artists. His work uses a variety of artistic techniques, masterfully integrating movement, dance, painting, light, design, sculpture, music and dramaturgy. After studying at the University of Texas and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, in the mid-1960s, Wilson founded to New York the art collective "The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds" with which he developed his first original shows, Deafman Glance - The Gaze of the Deaf (1970) and _A Letter for Queen Victoria _(1974 -1975). In 1976 he signed with Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach, a performance that changed the conventional conception ofopera as an artistic form. Over the years he has forged collaborations with such authors and musicians as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, and Jessye Norman. Wilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been shown in hundreds of group and solo exhibitions, and are part of private collections and museums worldwide. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Ubu Prizes, the Golden Lion for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the Laurence Olivier Award. He has been appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commandeur des arts et des lettres in France. Wilson is the founder and artistic director of the Watermill Center, a creative laboratory dedicated to the arts, based at to Watermill, Long Island.

North American psychedelic folk group founded in 2003 by sisters Bianca (Coco) and Sierra (Rosie) Casady, whose musical style integrates operatic singing, gospel and pop music. Born and raised in the United States, however, their artistic career began to Paris; their poetic universe also includes the sounds of water, pots and pans and childhood games. They compose together: Sierra on guitar and flute, Bianca on percussion. They made their debut with the album La Maison de Mon Rêve, in 2004, after touring with other artists such as Gena Rowlands, Battles, Ratatat and Devendra Banhart. From 2005 is the second album entitled Noah's Ark, which is more electronic and boasts, among others, collaboration with Antony Hegarty voice of the group Antony and the Johnsons. They seduce with their poetry that combines fragility and nonconformity; their stage performances leave their mark. In 2007 they released The adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn, whose cover artwork is signed from Pierre & Gilles. Hailed by critics, the two sisters signed Grey Oceans four years later and in 2013, Tales of to Grass Widow.

Riding the wave of success with Mother Courage, Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel founded the Berliner Ensemble company in 1949, which from 1954 took up residence at the present Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. In 1956, after Brecht's death, Helene Weigel, Ruth Berghaus, Manfred Wekwerth and then an artistic collective formed from Matthias Langhoff, Fritz Marquardt, Heiner Müller, Peter Palitzsch and Peter Zadek took over as directors.

In 1999 Claus Peymann, who had already directed the Schauspielhaus in Bochum and the Burgtheater in Vienna, took over as director of the theater and shifted programming toward contemporary drama and reinterpretations of classics, such as Shakespeare's Richard II. He also revived many of Brecht's texts and paved the way for collaboration with numerous directors, such as George Tabori, Robert Wilson, Peter Stein, and Luc Bondy, to create new productions that entered the theater's repertory.

Still central to the Berliner Ensemble's programming are the texts of contemporary German playwrights such as Thomas Bernhard, Botho Strauss, Elfriede Jelinek and Peter Handke.