Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, February 20, 2009.
Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17.
First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the now eighty-year old saga of 'Mack the Knife' and his entourage of criminals and whores has never lost its theatrical punch.
'It's a satire on capitalism and corruption told from the viewpoint of the 'little people',' notes Aaron. 'If there was ever time to revive this show, it's now. Michael [Feingold]'s translation is earthy, gritty and very funny. I think it's going to strike a chord with audiences.'
Seattle Theatre Group presents Kungfu Theatre: Tales from the Beijing Opera at The Moore Theatre Friday, April 17, 2009 at 7:30pm. Kungfu Theatre: Tales from the Beijing Opera is a selection of comic and dramatic scenes from some of China's most popular stories. Drawn from Chinese history, mythology and folklore, and performed in both Chinese and English this colorful show is fun for audiences of all ages. Several stories are performed using English and Chinese dialogue, music, dance, mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, and singing. It will prove to be as visual and exciting as it is cultural and educational.
Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, February 6, 2009.
Seattle Theatre Group presents local dance companies, locust and Cruz Control in a split bill performance of two new works, 'crushed' and 'Dance of the Dead,' respectively at The Moore Theatre Friday, February 27, 2009 at 7:30pm.
Amy O'Neal and Zeke Keeble's locust bring the world premiere of 'crushed,' a dance, music and video performance piece. Dancers sing and musicians dance in this feverishly physical dissection of cause and effect. 'crushed' explores being caught off guard and how often times the entity doing the blindsiding is at times more affected than the blindsided entity. 'crushed' is funded by 4Culture with developmental support by On the Boards and Creative Capital.
Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17.
First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the now eighty-year old saga of 'Mack the Knife' and his entourage of criminals and whores has never lost its theatrical punch.
'It's a satire on capitalism and corruption told from the viewpoint of the 'little people',' notes Aaron. 'If there was ever time to revive this show, it's now. Michael [Feingold]'s translation is earthy, gritty and very funny. I think it's going to strike a chord with audiences.'
Shuler Hensley ('Young Frankenstein: The New Mel Brooks Musical'), Keir Dullea ('The Good Shepherd') and other actors will read the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'They Knew What They Wanted,' written by Sidney Howard and directed by Joanne Woodward, on Monday, November 10, 7 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse
Betty Boop, a new musical, will feature music by 15-time Grammy Award winner David Foster, with book by Sally Robinson and Oscar Williams. The show is planning to debut on Broadway in the 2010-2011 season at a Nederlander theatre to be announced.
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Shuler Hensley ('Young Frankenstein: The New Mel Brooks Musical'), Keir Dullea ('The Good Shepherd') and other actors will read the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'They Knew What They Wanted,' written by Sidney Howard and directed by Joanne Woodward, on Monday, November 10, 7 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse
The Willows Theatre Company presents 'Sunrise at Campobello' about FDR beginning May 5.
La Jolla Playhouse's Artistic Director Christopher Ashley is pleased to announce his inaugural season at La Jolla Playhouse, which includes '33 Variations,' 'The Night Watcher,' 'The Third Story,' 'Tobacco Road' and 'Xanadu.'
INTAR Theatre, one of America's longest running Latino theaters producing plays in English, begins its 42nd season with a production of Pulitzer Prize-winner Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, directed by Academy Award-winning actress and director Estelle Parsons. This rediscovered classic will play a limited Off-Broadway run from September 20 through October 20 at Theater for the New City. The official opening is set for Monday, October 1 at 7PM.
The York Theatre Company has announced its Fall 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series -- the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances
Broadway song and dance man Jeffry Denman has been cast as the romantic lead in the Encores! staged concert version of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's Face the Music.
Arlene Shuler, President and CEO of New York City Center, announced today that the 14th season of its acclaimed ENCORES! series will celebrate the great Broadway revue, a form that flourished from just before 1900 until the early '50s.
The New York Times reports that Ana Gasteyer has joined the cast of Roundabout's 'Threepenny Opera' for which previews will beging on March 24th.
The New York Times reports that Dale will return to Broadway after an absence of nine years to star as Mr. Peachum in the Roundabout production.
On September 20th the press got a sneak preview of the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of 'On The Twentieth Century' starring Marin Mazzie, Douglas Sills, Christopher Sieber, Brad Oscar, Brooks Ashmanskas, Jo Anne Worley and a slew of others!
Kathleen Turner ('The Graduate,' '...Virginia Woolf') and Robert Cuccioli
('Jekyll & Hyde') have just been added to the roster of stars appearing in
ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, presented by The Actors' Fund of America as its
Fifth Annual Broadway Benefit Concert.
Geraldine Fitzgerald, who recieved a Tony nomination as a director and an Oscar nomination as an actress, passed away on July 17th at the age of 91
On April 28 the US Postal Service unveiled a postage stamp bearing the image of renowned lyricist Yip Harburg.
Alan Cumming, Edie Falco and Nelli McKay to appear in a new Roundabout production of The Threepenny Opera.
He's gone from being the Phantom and the Scarlet Pimpernel to president of the U.S.
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