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

Based on The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht

This adaptation of 3penny Opera is set 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

The full cast includes Tony Award Winner Katrina Lenk (Company) as Pirate Jenny, Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh (Falsettos) as Polly Peachum, Tony Award nominee Mary Testa (Oklahoma!) as Lucy Brown, Drama Desk nominee George Abud (Lempicka) as Macheath, with Paula Gaudier as Pam/Young Polly, Mahira Kakkar as Tiger Brown, Anthime Miller as Pouty Petey, Berit Palma as Stuffy Stevie, Alexis Papaleo as Tummy Tommy, Joseph Pyfferoen as Peachum, Aline Salloum as Mrs. Peachum, and Nicola Vazquez as Krusti Kristi.

George Abud directs the production alongside a creative team which includes Jake Landau, who will provide new orchestrations and additional lyrics for the production. Minhui Lee music directs the production and Kellie Beck is the Associate Director, with choreography by Brianna Mercado, and costume design by Raul Luna.

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.