Threepenny 101
Rob Kendt in Time Out clears up some misconceptions about The Threepenny Opera on the eve of the sold-out(!) run at BAM next week of Robert Wilson's staging with the Berliner Ensemble. In fact, Threepenny was a long-running hit at the Theater de Lys on Christopher Street in the 1950s, helping establish Off Broadway as a commercial alternative to Broadway (not to mention burnishing both Brecht's and Weill's post-WW…