The director brings great urgency and panache to this scathing critique of capitalism, with knockout performances in a bold and seductive show In a few years, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s ...

The Threepenny Opera: Musical drama. Book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Kurt Weill. Directed by Susannah Martin. With Jeff Wood, Kelsey Venter, Dave Garrett, Bekka Fink, Beth Wilmurt et al.

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.

The Broadway theater critic Walter Kerr once described the score of The Threepenny Opera as “the most wonderfully insulting music I have ever come across.” Its sinister number, “Mack the Knife,” is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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” ...

[IMG:R]Tony Award winner Alan Cumming is back at Studio 54, where he triumphed as the Emcee in Cabaret, to play Mack the Knife in one of the greatest hits to every shake up the world of musical ...

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 ...

The same week that Macheath escaped hanging in the Broomhill Opera's South African adaptation of John Gay's 1728 "The Beggar's Opera" at New Haven's Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas, Macheath was ...