What’s the going rate for opera tickets? I’m asking. I’ve only attended one opera in my life and we had “comp” tickets for that one, thanks to my favorite youngest daughter’s employment at the time.

Listen to Bobby Darin sing "Mack the Knife" and you're bound to hear an infectiously swingin' earworm about some groovy little rascal named Macheath. Move beyond the oh-so-casual "babes" that ...

Brecht and Weill turned to John Gay's 18th-century 'The Beggar's Opera' to fashion this savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. Set in Victorian London, the bitter tale ...

Brecht and Weill turned to John Gay's 18th-century 'The Beggar's Opera' to fashion this savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. Set in Victorian London, the bitter tale ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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” ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Opera Columbus opens their new season this weekend with an all-new adaptation of the classic "The Threepenny Opera." "If you love jazz music, if you love Charleston-type dancing, this ...

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 ...

'The Band's Visit' co-stars Katrina Lenk and George Abud are both linked to the new production. Nothing could be more dramatic than the current mayoral election, but an upcoming adaptation of The ...

© Patrick Baldwin 2014. All rights reserved. The lyrics are in a version by Jeremy Sams and the dialogue has been translated (not to say, updated) by Robert David ...