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Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Baldwin, Kate Clark, Victoria Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert (Series) Lerner, Alan Jay Love Life (Play) Mitchell, Brian Stokes New York City Center Theater Theater Theater (Off Broadway) Viertel, Jack Weill, Kurt

‘Love Life,’ the Lost Great American Musical, Returns Over 75 Years Later

Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s pioneering “Love Life” was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.

By Joshua Barone

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Brecht, Bertolt Carnegie Hall Classical Music Cleveland Orchestra Ensemble Modern Gruber, H K Hindemith, Paul Knights, The Korngold, Erich Wolfgang Krenek, Ernst Lemper, Ute Mahler, Gustav Schoenberg, Arnold Stravinsky, Igor Vienna Philharmonic Weill, Kurt

At Carnegie Hall, Weimar Is Irresistible but Vaguely Defined

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory.

By Zachary Woolfe

Brecht, Bertolt de Beer, Lotte Lenhard, Maurice Music Theater Vienna (Austria) Volksoper Weill, Kurt

Vienna Volksoper Pushes Boundaries With Its ‘Threepenny Opera’

Starting with “The Threepenny Opera,” the Volksoper in Vienna is reconsidering a series of works and inviting audiences to join the discussion.

By David Belcher