Moon Over Dark Street will land at MTA’s Theater W97 March 8-10 as Theater Arts’ Kim Mancuso and Pilgrim Theatre kicks off a tour of the production.
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
―B. Brecht
A cabaret of theatre and music by collaborators Bertolt Brecht, Elizabeth Hauptman, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler featuring jazz-hot tunes which emerged during the decline of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolph Hitler. An evening of notable classics from Threepenny Opera (Mac The Knife; Surabya Johnny), Happy End (Bilbao Song; Song of the Big Shot, and Little Mahagonny (Alabama Song), and the wrenching ballads of Hanns Eisler, the production tracks the devastation of WWII and the McCarthy Era traveling from Berlin to Hollywood with songs of love, sex and agitation, and a chilling resonance with today’s political scene.
