New Line Theatre gives us the Brecht/Weill collaboration I’ve imagined in my mind after only hearing select musical pieces, and watching a fuzzy copy of G.W. Pabst’s 1931 film. This is true art, and a show that you absolutely need to see!
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Critical Blast Review of “The Threepenny Opera
Then Macheath’s gang, Brian Claussen, Kent Coffel, Todd “The Boss” Micali, and Luke Steingruby did appear, dear,
Having stolen the wedding bash…
Promo Video for “The Threepenny Opera” at New Line Theatre
Snoop’s Theatre Thoughts Review of “The Threepenny Opera”
The Threepenny Opera is a contradiction in several ways. It’s simultaneously comedic and bleak, energetic and gloomy. It’s a story without any real heroes, but where some villains are more villainous than others. It’s a classic that I’d never seen before, and New Line’s latest production has proven to be a memorable introduction.
Brian Claussen, Kent Coffel, Todd Micali and Luke Steingruby are effectively comical as Macheath’s gang, as well.
Talkin’ Broadway Review of “The Threepenny Opera”
From a director who usually looks backward in time for context, and also revels in the shocking, we now get the biggest shock of all: that this 1928 show, one of the highlights of the German Weimar period, seems to have snapped out of hopelessness and morphed into the first rebellious musical of the “post-Ferguson” era.
Kurt Weill Foundation Preview of “The Threepenny Opera”
The New Line Theatre has presented edgy and off-beat musicals in St. Louis since 1991, but they have never put on The Threepenny Opera before. Artistic Director Scott Miller is about to change that…
Photo Flash: First Look at New Line Theatre’s “The Threepenny Opera”
New Line Theatre, “the bad boy of musical theatre,” closes its 24th season of adult, alternative musical theatre in June with one of the masterpieces of the art form, the darkly satiric THREEPENNY OPERA (which isn’t really an opera), running now through June 20, 2015. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
New Line Live Tweets From Opening Night Of “The Threepenny Opera”
Read the full stream of live tweets from opening night here!
“The Threepenny Opera” Production Photos
RFT Preview of “The Threepenny Opera”
Washington University South Campus Theatre
6501 Clayton Road
Clayton, MO 63105
8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until June 20
Price: $15-$25Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera opens with a jaunty song about an unrepentant murderer and ends with the bad guys winning. Why? Because if you’re going to satirize both opera and a corrupt society, you go all the way. Macheath is our charming killer, and he’s currently toying with Polly Peachum’s tender affections. Mr. Peachum, the king of the beggars, isn’t happy with his daughter’s taste in men and plans to set up Macheath for arrest. Mr. Peachum doesn’t know, however, that the chief of police is Macheath’s bosom friend. Crooked cops, murderers getting away with murder and backstabbers getting stabbed — it’s all very familiar to modern audiences. Not bad for a musical written in 1928. New Line Theatre closes out its season with what is arguably (there is no argument) the best musical of all time.
The Threepenny Opera is performed at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (May 28 through June 20) at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (6501 Clayton Road; 314-534-1111 or http://www.newlinetheatre.com). Tickets are $15 to $25.
PAUL FRISWOLD
Luke Steingruby 