In 1986, the Goodman Theatre’s newly appointed artistic director Robert Falls sat down with the actor Brian Dennehy for a joint radio interview with historian extraordinaire Studs Terkel. Dennehy opened the segment reading “On the Joy of Beginnings,” a poem by the playwright Bertolt Brecht.
He and Falls were talking up Brecht’s drama “Galileo,” Falls’ directorial debut at the Goodman, where he’d just taken up the artistic helm. The stanzas worked as as an audio teaser.
