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Tag: Kurt Weill

The 1955 Production of ‘The Threepenny Opera’ Begins a Record-Setting Run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

On September 20, 1955, the world of theater witnessed the opening of a stunning revival of The Threepenny Opera, a work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that had already cemented its place as one of the 20th century’s most significant and revolutionary musicals. The production, which had originally premiered on August 31, 1928, at […]