Brecht-Weill’s rarely-seen opera is a stirring take on consumer excess, writes Padraic Killeen.

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Sixty years ago pondering the question of an unruly populace, Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright mused:

Theatre: The Threepenny Opera

THE past 18 months have seen Mark O’Regan putting together some gallery of rogues on the Irish stage. In the Abbey Theatre’s Alice in Funderland he played an insidiously smug politician, the ‘Minister for All Your Needs’.

HAVING served as director of Project Arts Centre for ten years, Willie White took the reins of the Dublin Theatre Festival in late 2011. He didn’t have to travel very far. The festival offices are located just a few yards from the Project in Temple Bar. But conceptually, the distance between the two jobs is more of a jump.

Duke Special doesn’t do compromise when it comes to music, he tells Ed Power

The Nine Lives of Otto Katz

On Evil

THE good news is that Europe’s leaders have made the issue of jobs their top priority as they gather in Brussels tomorrow.

Top playwright Frank McGuinness will today enter the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.

Girls just want to have fun – on Broadway.

The North is today hosting Britain’s fourth annual memorial for the victims of the Holocaust.