This chapter describes the relationship between Luigi Pirandello and the Austrian stage director Max Reinhardt as a drama in three acts. The first act, “The Comedy of a commedia da fare,” addresses how Pirandello’s Six Characters made the author popular in German-speaking countries despite misunderstandings of the text created by arbitrary translation and Reinhardt’s interpretation of the play in a Calderónian manner as the drama of humans after the death of God. The second act, “The Tragedy of Misunderstanding,” shows how Pirandello’s Berlin years ended in a gigantic failure in 1930 when Tonight We Improvise was booed by the audience, an event for which the author blamed “the Reinhardt group.” However, the third act, “A Slow and Mild Process of Disentangling,” recounts an eventual reconciliation, which culminated in the project (ultimately unrealized) for an American film of Six Characters during Reinhardt’s exile in the United States.