Martha Clarke's staging of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 1928 The Threepenny Opera, a scabrous and disjointed work of epic musical theater, is almost perverse in its bloodlessness. This is, after all, the story of a killer: Adapted from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, it tracks the gangster Macheath (a dapper Park), also known as Mack the Knife, through scrapes with sex and the law. (It is also a jaunty satire of ca…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:49PM on April 7, 2014