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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Crook-Finger Jake (Macheath's Gang) Off-Broadway The Threepenny Opera 1955 Crookfinger Jake Off-Broadway The Threepenny Opera 1955 Dolly Off-Broadway The Threepenny Opera 1955 Dolly (Whore) ...

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 ...

When: Friday through Nov. 3. 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Where: Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. Cost: $15-$25. Tickets available through spokanestageleft.org. For the ...

Conductor Christian Capocaccia cues the 10 musicians, the audience settles, and a Street Singer enters, carrying a lantern to announce the imminent presentation of a show so inexpensive that even a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present The Threepenny Opera from Wednesday, Nov. 14, to Sunday, Nov. 18, in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the ...

Don’t expect bowler hats and dirty negligees in a new production at the Berliner Ensemble, the theater Bertolt Brecht founded. By A.J. Goldmann BERLIN — This winter, after live performances had made a ...