Kurt Weill

Brecht on Brecht

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 9-11

Friday, November 9 Ute Lemper SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS Ute Lemper is already a masterful interpreter of sad/romantic/tragic balladry, whether she's bringing to life "Mack the Knife" and other cabaret chansons by Kurt Weill or transmuting the surly poetry of Charles Bukowski into song form. B ... More >>

Music Picks: Gary Clark Jr., Those Darlins, Wiz Khalifa

The Ultimate in Ultrasound

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Great German Music

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and the other two at the Jasonic Tem ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Recovering From A Stooges Coma

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? KCRW Broadcast #144 for Saturday, December 10 Fanatics! What a show! It's the mother of all shows. It's gigantic and fantastic! It is extraordinary and wonderful in every way. It hits all the marks a ... More >>

David J's Black Dahlia

The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir

AND ALL THAT JAZZ

Easy Come Easy Go: Marianne Faithfull and Hal Willner's Songs of Tragedy and Heartbreak

Icon's sandpaper vocals sing it like no one else

Stereo Total on a Saturday Night: German Duo Lights Up El Rey

The German duo Stereo Total return to town with more of their curiously infectious electro-punk anthems. They haven't released a full-length album since 2007's Paris-Berlin, although a new single, "Anti Love Song," is supposed to come out soon on Kill Rock Stars.

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Bruising for Besos, Dracula, Burn This

The Threepenny Opera, Laws of Sympathy, and more

Pest Control: The Musical

Siouxsie Sioux at the Fonda

Also, Grizzly Bear and the L.A. Phil at Disney Hall

Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 1

Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, March 1 photos by Timothy Norris You knew Saturday night was turning magical when a roustabout in the audience at Walt Disney Concert Hall let out a yelp of glee during the LA Philharmonic's octane-fueled performanc ... More >>

Higher Education

School productions of Les Mis and Kurt Weill's Street Scene

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Bush is Bad

Recoveries

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth conducted by Stéphane Denève

Theater

Feb. 16, 2007

Choc Nitty’s All-Star Ghetto Mixtape Tour by Sam Slovick and Glow: photographs and text by Matthew Pillsbury

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s political satire at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Grandeur and Decadence

Brecht and Weill's Mahagonny returns to Los Angeles

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including All About Walken, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and more

Kansas Shitty Woman

A very odd evening of jazz with Mr. James Brown

Man of Many Parts

Native Sounds

The Scum Always Rises

Bertolt Brecht returns to Los Angeles

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user’s guide

Fresh Air

Uneasy Rider

Brecht in the USA

Thirteen Operas in 12 Days

Homo for the Holidays

Edited by Kateri Butler

88 Times Infinity

Is There Sex After Bach?

A Cradle of Nostalgia

Even Marc Blitzstein’s opera looks over its shoulder

Roll Call

Stripes 4 Ever

Birthday Boy

It Took a Weill

Do As You’re Told

Shockheaded Peter’s “Kindersehnen”

Manon First, One Out

The Bear That Plays Like a Man

All's Well That Ends Well

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's forgotten musical

Just One of Those Things

Bryan Ferry brings Cole to Newcastle

Moist 'n' Meaty

A hairy Palm Pictures production

A Flight of Fantasy, Grounded

Statement of Elia Kazan

Before The House Committee on Un-American Acitivities

Music at the Turn

A Memoranda List

Missing Voices