Directors have two jobs: to help the audience understand what the play is about and to stage it so the audience can see it. Director Fred Anzevino has failed at both here. The Threepenny Opera is, like most Bertolt Brecht works, a critique of respectability: its antihero Macheath is a charming criminal, while its villains […]
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Jenna Lyle of Parlour Tapes on a cowboy prophet with a didgeridoo
Current musical obsessions of Parlour Tapes cofounder Jenna Lyle, techno artist and composer Eric Fernandez, and Reader critic Peter Margasak
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Chicago Folks Operetta mounts the Chicago premiere of a landmark work by Kurt Weill
Johnny Johnson follows a pacifist into the trenches of WWI and beyond.
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BONEdanse’s rowdy Bully.punk.riot nails groupthink
BONEdanse’s rowdy Bully.punk.riot nails groupthink.
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Striding Lion rediscovers a German avant-gardist in Dada Gert
Striding Lion rediscovers a German avant-gardist in Dada Gert.
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Fritz Lang’s only romantic comedy still displays his skepticism
Fritz Lang’s only romantic comedy, You and Me, still displays the director’s skepticism
