The Threepenny Opera
This 1931 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s German play follows Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), a kind of celebrity crook à la the Krays or Jared Kushner. The […]
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Barry Humphries: Weimar Cabaret
Barry Humphries, better known as alter ego Dame Edna Everage, presents a repertoire of cabaret classics from Weimar Germany complete with full jazz orchestra and delightfully elegant cabaret artist Meow […]
Chicago
Of all the films set in Chicago (Grand Piano; Jupiter Ascending), only one is called Chicago… it’s Chicago. Based on Bob Fosse’s classic Broadway show, this 2002 musical follows Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger), […]
I’ve never seen…Cabaret
Somehow Cabaret has always passed me by – in fact I typically confuse it with Chicago, which I’ve also never seen. But after 26 years of ignorance, Dan was kind […]
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