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 ...

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.

To the tune of “Mack the Knife”: Brecht’s “Threepenny” has Songs with teeth, dear Of those London Thugs and thieves And the gang at Signature Theatre Wears this menace On their sleeves Forget sleeves: ...

“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” ...

F. Murray Abraham and outgoing “Cinderella” star Laura Osnes are among the lead thesps in Martha Clarke’s new Off Broadway production of “The Threepenny Opera,” skedded for an April opening at 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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Tragedy. Passion. Comedy. When people think of opera, most imagine one of the three. Most, however, haven't seen "The Threepenny Opera," by Kurt Weill. If they had, they'd know there ...

Dark-humor musicals can be a tough prospect for small, non-professional theater companies striving to retain a work’s intensity while communicating its humorous side, all while trying to line up ...

A few of you may be wondering what I'm talking about, which is exactly what I'll get into soon. Truth be told, before writing this, I didn't know what The Threepenny Opera was either, but I'm here to ...

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 ...