"I'm trying to make people think, like Brecht did with 'The Threepenny Opera.' "

Please explain how Brecht, who wrote Threepenny Opera in the Weimar Era, is by any definition, "postmodern."

Mr. Golan said that he had wanted to do 'The Threepenny Opera" for about 10 years, but that other studios had held options on it.

There's no equivalent of Macheath of "Threepenny Opera"; neither Orth nor Mattes emerges as a compelling figure in his own right.

Some of the lyrics Brecht wrote for "Threepenny Opera" are translations or paraphrases of poems by Villon.

In the Weill section of the evening, unhappy laments from "Happy End" and "Threepenny Opera" are sung with a wrenching power.

Collins made her Broadway debut with a 1976 revival of Threepenny Opera.

By 1933, Weill had long abandoned his angry atonality and, through stage pieces like "Mahagonny" and "Threepenny Opera," invented a popular music all his own.

Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) act 2, sc.

Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) act 3, sc.