THE PARTNERSHIP

Among the most creative and outsized personalities of the Weimar Republic, that sizzling yet decadent epoch between the Great War an d the Nazis' rise to power, were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the rebellious avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two youn g geniuses and the three women vital to their workactresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmannjoined tal ents to create the theatrical and musical masterworks The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, only to s plit in ra...[Read more]