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 ...

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 ...

An artistic destiny fulfilled, visionary director Robert Wilson (Quartett, 2009 Next Wave) joins the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble for its New York debut in a bold new production of Bertolt Brecht ...

Brecht and Weill turned to John Gay's 18th-century 'The Beggar's Opera' to fashion this savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. Set in Victorian London, the bitter tale ...

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 ...

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 ...

This anarchic updating of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera “lacks cohesion” but still goes down a storm in Leeds. The Threepenny Opera – a Graeae Theatre Company co-production with ...

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk ...

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, ...