The stage lights of the cozy venue brightened as the fair-haired chanteuse, Adrienne Haan, slinked onto the stage attired in a black sparkling jumpsuit with matching heels to begin her show. With a ...
The decadence in Berlin between the World Wars lives again on the stage of San Francisco’s Hypnodrome in the Thrillpeddlers’ world-premiere production titled “The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett ...
I never imagined I could be overwhelmed by a tiny-scale, studio production of the spectacular Kander-Ebb musical about clubland decadence and amours in Weimar Berlin just before the Nazis took over.
The life and death of Anita Berber (1899-1928), who was what we would now call a performance artist, are inseparable from the frantically erotic climate of Weimar Germany, as this tabloid-style ...
Fury and Elysium: transgression, revolution, and decadence in Weimar Berlin. A queer and Jewish revolutionary musical that celebrates and places centre stage the lives of three iconic Jewish women: ...
The roaring Twenties were Berlin's cultural heyday, and gave the city its reputation as a hotbed of hedonism. Weimar-era decadence is once again all the rage, as the party crowd trades in hooded tops ...