Kurt Weill

Culture
January 24, 2013
Capsule Stage Reviews: Memory House, The Mountaintop, Private Lives, Ubu Roi (King Ubu), The Young Man from Atlanta
Calendar
June 14, 2012
Dance Salad Festival 2013
Blogs
November 24, 2011
Top 5 Songs About Whiskey
Whether it's rye or bourbon, straight or blended, Irish, Scotch or Canadian, rock, country or classical, whiskey and warblers go way back. Even Stravinsky was quoted as saying "My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey." In whiskey-related weird news ... More >>
Calendar
November 24, 2011
Tender Buttons
Blogs
September 9, 2011
The 20 Best Tribute Albums Of All Time
Hootie covered Zeppelin!? '90s U So Crazy!This year alone has seen a multitude of tribute albums, from two Buddy Holly lovefests to the upcoming ZZ Top tribute set from a very motley crew of artists, including Nickelback, Daughtry, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (yum), and Wyclef Jean. Let t ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
5 Songs About Being Eaten (Mostly By Sharks)
Rocks Off is a big fan of the movie Jaws, though in spite of our affection for arm wrestling and sweet, sweet mutton chops, we always find ourselves sympathizing more with Chief Brody than with Quint. Given our druthers, we'd just as soon stay the hell out of the water. The better to avoid al ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2009
Last Call For Art: Mack The Knife, French Film And Invisible Billboards
Get ready for the closing curtain of Rice University's production of Threepenny Opera. The grand story by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill is being touted as "a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony!" Meant to satirize traditional opera while creating an new kind of musical theater, Threepenny is ... More >>
Culture
February 5, 2009
Even Novices Will Fall For HGO's Chorus!
Opera for All
Blogs
December 17, 2008
The Top 10 Reissues of 2008
[Note: This is the first in a series of articles that constitute Village Voice Media's year-end music package. The others - pop, indie-rock, dance mixes, Latin, country, alt-country/Americana, metal, rap/hip-hop and special graphics breaking down the year in charts and 2008's worst lyrics - will be ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2008
Welcome to Autumn: Songs of the Season by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Kinks, U2, White Stripes, Green Day, Yo La Tengo, ABBA and More
Culture
September 4, 2008
Capsule Stage Reviews: Baby with the Bathwater, Electile Dysfunction, In the Middle of the Ocean
Culture
August 28, 2008
Capsule Stage Reviews: Always...Patsy Cline, Baby with the Bathwater, Electile Dysfunction, In the Middle of the Ocean, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming
Music
January 17, 2008
Marah
Angels of Destruction!
Culture
January 17, 2008
Capsule Art Reviews: "Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976," "Nan Goldin: Stories Retold," "Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection," "Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome"
"Will Boone: A Man's House Is His Coffin"
Culture
January 10, 2008
"Nan Goldin: Stories Retold"
Work reflects the horrors, pleasures and ravages of time
Music
June 7, 2007
Norah Jones
Norah Jones becomes her own person
Music
April 8, 1999
My Fart Will Go On
Music
December 24, 1998
Rotation
Calendar
October 29, 1998
Night & Day
October 29 - November 4, 1998
Music
April 16, 1998
Rotation
Culture
March 12, 1998
Bad to Brecht, Vile to Weill
Calendar
March 5, 1998
Press Picks
Music
February 26, 1998
Rotation
Calendar
March 20, 1997
Press Picks
Music
February 15, 1996
Dutch Treat
Music
February 16, 1995
Weimar Woman
Ute Lemper searches for truth in the cabaret songs of 1920s Germany
Culture
March 24, 1994
Kitsch of Death
HGO's world premiere The Dracula Diary is deadly... dull
Calendar
March 10, 1994
Press Picks
Culture
February 3, 1994
Weill in America
Inspired by Porgy and Bess, Street Scene brings an American earnestness to the august art of opera