I suppose that a work as brilliant as Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera is bound to be interpreted and reinterpreted on the stage, each version as much a mirror of its time and place as of the ...
It’s not hard to find parallels between modern-day America and Germany between the World Wars. The era’s sexual freedom, flirtations with fascism and general sense of unease all feel eerily ...
Kosky’s revival of The Threepenny Opera reclaims Brecht and Weill’s satire for an era that feels just as corrupt as the one that inspired the original. Photo by Jörg Carstensen/picture alliance via ...
Die Dreigroschenoper is an opera where the singing—the quality thereof, I mean, not the fact of the songs—doesn’t matter in the least. What does matter is the flair with which the lines are delivered ...
Listen to Bobby Darin sing "Mack the Knife" and you're bound to hear an infectiously swingin' earworm about some groovy little rascal named Macheath. Move beyond the oh-so-casual "babes" that ...
Perhaps the epitome of highbrow-meets-lowbrow theater, “The Threepenny Opera” wraps urgent social satire and playfully experimental narrative construction inside a grimy wrapper. Sordid and soaring, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Spring Preview One of the busiest stage directors in Europe is fully arriving, at last, with “The Threepenny Opera” this spring. By Joshua Barone When ...
It’s known as the “beggars’ opera,” but it’s more of a boisterous musical. It was written in Berlin in the 1920s, but it takes place in Victorian England. It offers a socialist critique, but is ...
The Department of Theater and Dance at the UC Santa Barbara will present Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s musical “The Threepenny Opera” running Nov. 15,-23 in UCSB’s Performing Arts Theater. The play ...
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