Old Macheath is back, this time flashing his pearly whites as a thief in 1850s New York City in an updated version of John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch's 1728 classic The Beggar's Opera (perhaps best known for Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill's 1928 adaptation, The Threepenny Opera, with its now-standard signature ballad […]
