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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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: ...

The same week that Macheath escaped hanging in the Broomhill Opera's South African adaptation of John Gay's 1728 "The Beggar's Opera" at New Haven's Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas, Macheath was ...

Kelly Kaduce as Polly Peachum sings the iconic “Pirate Jenny” in the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Weill and Brecht’s "The Threepenny Opera." (Courtesy Liza Voll Photography) “The Threepenny ...

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 ...

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 ...

[IMG:R]Tony Award winner Alan Cumming is back at Studio 54, where he triumphed as the Emcee in Cabaret, to play Mack the Knife in one of the greatest hits to every shake up the world of musical ...