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 ...

The characters of “The Threepenny Opera” might already be familiar to you. The lead, Macheath, is the subject of that classic toe-tapper “The Ballad of Mack the Knife.” Plus, the show has been around ...

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Turn-of-the-century London is the last place you’d expect to see Mr. Rogers. But there he was on Thursday night; with a huge wave to the audience, he exchanged his oxfords for tennis shoes, his sport ...

Robert Wilson and Bertolt Brecht are a match made in avant-garde theater heaven. The unconventional director and the iconoclastic playwright meld in a bizarre, farcical, and strangely beautiful ...

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Kelly Kaduce as Polly Peachum sings the iconic “Pirate Jenny” in the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Weill and Brecht’s "The Threepenny Opera." (Courtesy Liza Voll Photography) “The Threepenny ...

To infuse new life into an old, familiar work, you start by going backward, searching inside the work for the initial impulses that created it. Contrariwise, to guarantee that it stays dead and that ...

Timing is everything. While any time is the right time for "The Threepenny Opera," the enterprise has been trumped by Broadway's riveting reinvention of "Sweeney Todd." Even without the stiff ...

There's a real feeling of 1928 Berlin to the new production of "The Threepenny Opera" that Soulpepper Theater has mounted as the first musical in the Toronto classical repertory company's nine-year ...

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 ...