I was struck by Robert Gottlieb’s question in his dance column last week, “How can educated and sophisticated viewers react I was struck by Robert Gottlieb’s question in his dance column last week, ...

New York City Opera will present Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's thrilling double bill, The Seven Deadly Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel, for the first time ever told as one story, a tragic fable for today ...

Musical theater giants from Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green to John Kander and Fred Ebb have been drawn to “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opus.

BMG today announced that is has struck a deal with the estate of legendary German-born composer Kurt Weill for the administration of the popular songs he wrote in collaboration with dramatist Bertolt ...

Talents of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, adapter Jonathan Eaton, and director Rob Walker converge, coalesce, and combine to create a song story of strangers brought together somewhere between Mandalay ...

Last year marked the centenary of the great theatrical composer Kurt Weill’s birth, although the celebration has continued into 2001 with such commemorations as the recent all-Weill issue of the ...

In honor of revolutionary composer Kurt Weill’s 125th birthday this year, acclaimed singer & actress Ute Lemper has announced her new album, Pirate Jenny, out April 25 via The Audiophile Society.

The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.

The Ford Amphitheatre decided to ignore the calendar Saturday night and celebrate the Kurt Weill centenary about five months after it supposedly ended. But the real focus of the concert was the ...