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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Top revivals of two classics—Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard—are being performed in Brooklyn this month. The Threepenny Opera is being presented at the ...

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s musical play “The Threepenny Opera” was famously mounted in 1945 Berlin just after the war. A contemporary account noted that the makeshift staging featured gaunt ...

“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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic's Pick Barrie Kosky’s new production for the Berliner Ensemble, at the theater where the famous work premiered, knows where to break the rules.