It’s a pretty safe bet that, if you walked up to 10 people on the street and asked them who Brecht and Weill were, you’d get at least eight blank stares. Maybe two people would recognize the pair’s ...

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 ...

They seem perpetually hungry and raw, those fist-waving, teeth-clenching workers’ musicals that Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht fomented in the Weimar Republic’s dying days. An eternally angry protest ...

Macheath, that notorious king of the London underworld, may be quick and lethal with a knife, but the Broadway-bound production of The Threepenny Opera that chronicles his wayward ways is slow and ...

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.

Recently, two productions of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" (1930), by no means a standard repertoire work, were mounted in close succession by Los ...

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The standard synagogue fundraising dinner thinks outside the sanctuary this evening. Temple Beth Haverim has partnered with the Foundation for Jewish Camping for their annual dinner, with the goal of ...