Kurt Weill News

Director Sean Graney has long been fascinated by "The Threepenny Opera," the landmark Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical that debuted in Berlin in 1928, and went on to become an emblem of that brief but ...

If you don't like the theater here, wait a few minutes. It'll change. With all due respect to Mark Twain and his oft-quoted quip about New England weather, the adage also applies to our local scene, where as of ...

Weill, who died at the age of 50 more than a half-century ago, was unique amongst his musical theater contemporaries in that he orchestrated his scores, which included such titles as "The Threepenny Opera," ...

Naji Hakim, St Giles' Cathedral, August 9 Four stars BBC SSO Messiaen, Usher Hall, August 10 Four stars Gabriela Montero, Queen's Hall, Tuesday Three stars Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Usher Hall, Tuesday Two ...

Tanglewood beats working for anybody who gets to listen, and perhaps specially for the young performers who are pouring their talented hearts into the opportunity of a lifetime.

Kurt Weill is said to have considered Street Scene to be his masterpiece. First performed in 1947, it has been described as a "Broadway opera", weaving elements of musical comedy into its grander ambitions, ...

Kurt Weill is said to have considered Street Scene to be his masterpiece. First performed in 1947, it has been described as a "Broadway opera", weaving elements of musical comedy into its grander ambitions, ...

Photograph: Tristram Kenton Is it opera or musical? As with Porgy and Bess, formal definitions seem academic when confronted by a show of such passion and power.

In anticipation of my return to sweltering New York City on Sunday, I went to sweltering New York City on Thursday night.

Life in the tenement: the suspicious Frank and Rose What a revelation for my uninitiated ears Kurt Weill's Street Scene proved to be in Opera Group's valiant production.

If you are not seeing this page correctly please click here to refresh layout Review: The Threepenny Opera at Maidment Theatre 5:00AM Monday June 02, 2008 By Paul Simei-Barton Watch Video: Threepenny Opera ...

One of the great operas of the past century is Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny." A scandal at its premiere in Leipzig in 1930, the piece was disdained by both the Nazis ...

Seattle Symphony and Cornish College of the Arts come together for a staged production of The Little Mahagonny, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's dramatic tale of human vice and corruption on Thursday, June 5, at ...

Was her "Master's Cabaret" actually an art song recital? With her rich voice filling Unitarian Universalist Church with power and poignancy in songs like "Je ne t'aime pas" and "Es regnet," it could have turned ...

“What do you mean, 'That was nice?”

The words uttered by Macheath, aka Mack the Knife, in an early scene in 'The Threepenny Opera' aptly sum up the feeling one gets from viewing the notoriously challenging, authority-taunting theatrical work by ... via BurlingtonFreePress.com

Academy's Family Sunday takes on 'green' theme The Honolulu Academy of Arts goes "green" during this month's Family Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. With April marking the start of its Elements of Art themes, and ... via Honolulu Star-Bulletin

“I was having an e.e. cummings moment”

The Harvard Office for the Arts' Dance Program's annual show, "Dancers' Viewpointe," is the first large-scale coordination of music and dance in the program's history. via Harvard Crimson

Relevance of 'Threepenny Opera' spans generations By Roger McBain Thursday, April 10, 2008 Photo by Sean Nicholl. via Evansville Courier & Press

“It was a simple story of everyday life in the big city, a story of love and passion and greed and death”

In the aftermath of World War II, Germany discovered that it had not only lost the war, but had also lost many of its most talented citizens. via The Mountain Times

“I love the way the production has the ability to play with and tantalize audiences”

Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 5:03 pm Press Release: Silo Theatre MEDIA RELEASE for immediate release: 31 March 2008 Morality Has No Home Silo Theatre and The Large Group presents BERTOLT BRECHT & KURT WEILL's THE ... via Scoop