January 15-25, 2026
Theatre at St. Jean’s

Adaptation and direction
by George Abud

Musical adaptation and orchestration
by Jake Landau

Choreography
by Brianna Mercado

This adaptation sets Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill’s 3penny Opera in present day New York City against the backdrop of a Mayoral Inauguration. Themes of immigration abuse and class warfare burn beneath a vaudevillian veneer of riotous Brechtian comedy. 

PERFORMANCES

Theatre at St. Jean’s
150 E 76th St.

January 15-25, 2026

Tickets $45–$120

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Tony Award Winner Katrina Lenk (Company) stars as Pirate Jenny, with Tony nominee Barbara Walsh (Falsettos) as Polly Peachum and George Abud (Lempicka) as Macheath. They are joined by Paula Gaudier (The Beautiful Lady) as Pam/Young Polly, Mahira Kakkar (Manifest) as Tiger Brown, and Aline Salloum (A People’s Guide To History) as Mrs. Peachum.

George Abud directs the production alongside a creative team which includes Jake Landau, who will provide new orchestrations and additional lyrics for the production, choreography by Brianna Mercado, and costume design by Raul Luna.

Further cast and creative team to be announced soon!

ABOUT THE SHOW

In a time of mounting fascism and eroding free speech, the theatre must respond with radicalizing storytelling so vivid, so absorbing, and so immediate that one is activated to participate in their daily citizenship. Brecht created Threepenny Opera in a time of upheaval and moral rot to expose the dark figures manipulating our society from the shadows. We find ourselves in a scarily similar time to those same days a hundred years ago. There is no better template than Threepenny Opera, no better tool than Brecht's perspective-bending comedy, to explore the warning signs of a nation's decline, a nation that aches to be unified. Macheath is once again at hand, this time much more indelicate, much more out in the open, and seducing us ever so slowly with one last punchline.