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 ...

2006 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Jim Dale 2006 Tony Awards Best Revival of a Musical Roundabout Theatre Company ...

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, ...

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Jim Dale won. 2006 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Jim Dale was nominated but did not win.

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.

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 ...

Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” is always a challenge: How does a director interpret its superficially misogynistic story—on a bet, two unsuspecting women are manipulated into trading lovers, the assumption ...

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 ...