Lotte Lenya

The Charles Theatre's three-film James Bond retrospective ends this weekend with 1963's From Russia With Love, in which the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. seeks revenge on Bond (the great Sean Connery) for killing their star agent, Dr. No. With Daniela Bianchi as...

A recent essayist on National Public Radio related how she and her five siblings took turns caring for their Alzheimer's-stricken mother. The rotating home care was fraught with tensions for all the family members, many of whom had been raised with...

One of the best movies of the year so far, "The Savages" is writer-director Tamara Jenkins' second feature after "Slums of Beverly Hills," which came out a decade ago. If that movie, about a teenage girl's coming-of-age under the guidance of an erratic,...

"LoveMusik," a look at the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya, received 12 Drama Desk nominations Thursday, honoring the best of the 2006-2007 New York theater season. It was followed by three other musicals —...

If there's any doubt that we're living in a golden age of creative nonfiction, the nominations for this year's Tonys, which will be awarded Sunday night, should squelch it. Have there ever been more actors nominated for playing real-life characters?...

When nominations for the 61st annual Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, there won't be as many glittery Hollywood names on the list as in seasons past. The close-knit theater community's frostiness last year toward Oscar winners Julia Roberts and...

Signaling a possible breakthrough for a new generation of composers whose bona fides are not in theater but in rock, "Spring Awakening," a musical hailed for bringing a fresh and authentic rock edge to a 19th century German tale about teenagers' sexual...

Before "Cabaret," before "Chicago," before "Assassins" and related brethren from the dark side, there was "The Threepenny Opera." With its shark bite from Bertolt Brecht and the haunting sour-key melodies of Kurt Weill, the Weimar Republic smash of 1928...

From The Times: April 10, 1962 It was a 10-strike for "West Side Story" at the 34th annual awards presentation of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Monday night in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium — only one fewer than "Ben-Hur's" all-...

The world of cabaret can be divided into two distinct categories: Ute Lemper and everyone else. Though Chicagoans have witnessed this protean artist in venues as intimate as the Park West and as sprawling as the Chicago Theatre, the performance Lemper...

1. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (Terence Young; 1963) 3 1/2 stars No. 2 in the James Bond series, and the one with the most memorable villains (Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya), the most exciting early fights and chases, and Sean Connery in his prime. At this point...

Nick Cave and his sharp-dressed phantoms of the opera, the Bad Seeds, came to the Chicago Theatre over the weekend and turned the beautiful old palace on State Street into their version of a Weimar Republic cabaret, a gypsy campfire serenade, a last...