Review: Theo Ubique is just the theater to put on a fresh and lively ‘Threepenny Opera’

“This 1928 composition really never goes out of style, and as long as corruption, hypocrisy and virtue signaling remain a constituent part of human behavior, it never will,” writes Tribune critic ChrisJonesTrib.

Michael Mejia, Carl Herzog, Tyler DeLoatch, Isabel Garcia, Peter Stielstra and Luiza Vitucci in"The Threepenny Opera" at Theo Ubique Theatre.

Given that the piece is about, in essence, the London equivalent of the Chicago mob mixed with Chicago machine politics, the show has a long and apt history in this toddlin’ town. These days, though, you rarely see a decent Chicago “Threepenny,” which is technically quite difficult to sing. I last reviewed “Threepenny Opera” in Chicago, in a lively production by a now-defunct theater company known as The Hypocrites, under the direction of Sean Graney, at the now-defunct Steppenwolf Garage.

Anzevino, collaborating here with the musical director Ryan Brewster, pulls off the show in an intimate gaslit cabaret setting with just a lone pianist. The piece is long but it zips along here very nicely and its internal integrity never flags.

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