CMU School of Drama


Thursday, October 27, 2022

Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose?

The New York Times: Ever since Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill served up “The Threepenny Opera,” their “play with music,” in Berlin in 1928, the dividing line between spoken and musical theater in Germany has been remarkably porous. Music is everywhere in contemporary German theater, often used to heighten or subvert emotional effects.

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