Drag queens, trannies, quasi-sexuality, oh my!

By Leonard Jacobs [NY Press, 3 May 2006]

Five minutes before the house lights dimmed, my partner, who loves theater but has never seen a Bertolt Brecht play, asked what The Threepenny Opera is about. My first impulse was vaudevillian shtick: “about two and a half hours, dear.” Instead, I suggested he find out for himself.