FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY WITH KURT WEILL

In shaping Berlin to Broadway, I was drawn to the spirit of German Kabarett where performance was protest, and satire thrived amid the collapse of long-held structures. The production leaned into this decay: a worn stage, a fractured world, voices rising from the rubble. Inspired by the likes of El Lissitzky, Otto Dix and Oskar Schlemmer, the set echoed Bauhaus principles—movable geometric forms that shaped the space as actors moved through it (“form as function”). Seating at cabaret tables spilled onto the stage floor, dissolving any line between audience and performer. These were not characters, but citizens, of both then and now. At its heart, I wanted this piece to ask the audience to reckon with history — not as something distant, but as something dangerously present.