Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. At the heart of the story of “Mack the Knife” is a great irony: a song about a cold-blooded serial murderer written ...

When Lloyd Price’s version of “Stagger Lee” hit #1 earlier in 1959, it must’ve been something of a shock: A genuine murder ballad, performed with a getting-away-with-it sense of glee and enthusiasm, ...

Over the past 25 years, regulars at West Hollywood's Gardenia Supper Club have formed a community around their love of jazz, cabaret and the Great American Songbook.

Tony-winner Jonathan Groff is set to star in a staged reading next month of a new musical about Bobby Darin, the 1950s-’60s-era singer who scored hits with “Mack the Knife,” “Dream Lover” and “Beyond ...

Do not toss out those old Bobby Darin records and tapes! The current show at the Theatre at Saint Peter's, which purports to be a tribute to the late singer, doesn't offer the same thrill as the real ...

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It has the songs and cynicism, the suavity and snap and the sting. Best of all, from the opening chorus of “Mack the Knife” onward, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s felicitous production of “The ...

Presented by Splish Splash Productions, LLC, casting by World Casting, at the Theatre at Saint Peter's, 619 Lexington Ave., NYC, June 22-Aug. 31. Do not toss out those old Bobby Darin records and ...