Born out of Germany's economic meltdown in the 1920s, "The Threepenny Opera" puts the destitute and desperate onstage — a remarkable thing at the time. Rather than refresh its reality for our own financial crisis, director Rufus Norris and playwright Simon Stephens turn it into a (three)penny dreadful, as keystone cops chase red-striped robbers and... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 04:22PM on May 29, 2016