By Al Rudis Look out, old Mackie is back. Last seen in these parts in the summer of 2005, that notorious pimp, thief and killer Macheath, aka Mack the Knife, is coming back in February.

By Paul Taylor Peter Brook wrote the bible for 1960s theatre's revolutionaries with 'The Empty Space' and, at 83, is still relentlessly pushing boundaries. He tells Paul Taylor why he has to live in the moment Peter Brook is shouting at me. Loudly. And he's shouting at me about Shakespeare.

By Kenneth Walton WHEN Scottish Opera performed Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny back in the 1980s, director David Alden placed the opening scene in Margaret Thatcher's 10 Downing Street kitchen.

By Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune Jun. 4--Perhaps this is the most delicate way to put it: Singer KT Sullivan is an acquired taste that at least one listener has yet to acquire.

By Kate Bassett Theatre Shaw's classic revels in timeless themes and a talented cast; by contrast a Brecht revival seems didactic and dull Pygmalion Old Vic LONDON The Good Soul of Szechuan Young Vic LONDON The Birthday Party Lyric, Hammersmith LONDON Tim Pigott-Smith's Professor Henry Higgins is holding forth while munching on a sweet.