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 ...

Wedding guests (remarking on Polly’s performance of a song): “The missus sure can sing a song. That was nice! Mack Messer: That wasn’t “nice” you idiots! It’s not nice, it’s art! A poet given to ...

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Little Island’s season opens with a musical, inspired by “The Beggar’s Opera” and “The Threepenny Opera,” that has had a fast and furious gestation. “The Counterfeit Opera,” with a book and lyrics by ...

Starting with “The Threepenny Opera,” the Volksoper in Vienna is reconsidering a series of works and inviting audiences to join the discussion. By David Belcher “The Threepenny Opera” could be ...

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Rogers and Schlaefer started collaboration on this production a year ago. Like Brecht and Weill, they believe in bringing art to the people. Columbia can’t give you Sting, Cyndi Lauper, Jerry Orbach ...

UTC Theatre Co. and UTC Opera will present The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, with music by Kurt Weill and translation by Marc Blitzstein, April 19-23 at the UTC Fine Arts Center. This ...

CHICAGO—What made Threepenny Opera appropriate in the 1830’s when it is set and in the 1920’s when it opened in Germany, still makes the play timely today—its theme: The rich keep getting richer—(Does ...

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?” had an especially amusing ring to it Sunday night at Evanston’s Theo Ubique Theatre, as Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” ...