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...Threepenny Opera opens Wednesday night at the Loeb. This is the first in a series of offerings by the Harvard Summer School Repertory, a company that is traditionally proficient and thoroughly professional. The Bertolt Brecht play is a modern classic, and a delight to see if the performance is sufficiently raunchy. Kurt Weill's music and Brecht lyrics give the show its real flavor; "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is the tastiest number. The Shark bites Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Wednesday tickets are $4.95, a Thursday seat costs...
...depress the shift lock, officially opened on sunday. unofficially it's been running for about a year, of course, but it's always nice to do things right. sort of like henry aaron hitting it in atlanta. weekends, 2:30 p.m., theater two at 196 broadway, along with Changes (Brecht and two contemporary one-actors) in the evenings...
...Sheridan's The Rivals, at the Loeb--it's getting a good production, by all accounts, so if you like Restoration comedy (there's no accounting for tastes) it's probably all right. Which is probably more than you can say for some of the other things around...Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities is mostly just incomprehensible (369 Performance Center, near Union Square in Somerville), Changes is evidently mostly just improvisatory (Theater Two, near Kendall Square), and vacation is evidently, mercifully, unbelievably, mostly just imminent, and high time...
Changes consists of "a variety of original improvisations" and three one-act plays, one of which is apparently a jam session by local jazzmen. The other two are The Jewish Wife, which I gather is one of Bertolt Brecht's less worthwhile plays, and Michael McClure's The Cherub, which is evidently about someone called The Bed and described only as a sixty-two-year-old actress who must be seen. I have little or no idea what this means. Thursdays (cheaper), Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. at Theater Two, 196 Broadway near Kendall Square...
...Jungle of Cities is also one of Brecht's less worthwhile plays. Its chief value probably lies in its encouragement to young playwrights who feel awed by Brecht's maturity. A sort of Two Gentlemen of Verona for Marxists, or something. 369, a new Cambridge company, gives it a better production than it deserves. A pan that is probably too kind probably appears on page two. 369 Center, off Washington Street near Union Square...