Marc Blitzstein

The chosen production is The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein, and originally directed by Orson Welles in 1938, which achieved notoriety when it became the first Broadway musical to be shut down for fear of social unrest.

This week's new theatre Mark Cook 2010

Of such epic proportions were the Hubbards that The Little Foxes was translated into opera form by Marc Blitzstein, as Regina.

Lillian Hellman. 2009

Lillian Hellman's 1939 play about a greedy family of Southern scoundrels is a well-made melodrama whose characters are so broadly drawn as to border on the operatic (Marc Blitzstein actually turned it into an opera, "Regina," in 1949).

A Date Night Both Funny and Poignant 2009

Singing mostly obscure works by Bernstein, Sondheim, Weill and the lesser-known Marc Blitzstein, her soprano conveys a freshness that is closer to cabaret than Bizet.

A New Dawn For Some Old Songs 2008

Here are Orson Welles (Angus MacFadyen), producer John Houseman (Cary Elwes) and composer Marc Blitzstein (Hank Azaria) mounting their Federal Theatre production of the political musical "The Cradle Will Rock," when it is suddenly shut down by the government on the eve of production.

Red Alert 2008

Compositions by Marc Blitzstein and Alec Wilder can also be sampled in obscure films here.

A Landmark of Research and Restoration 2008

Soundtrack: Mack the Knife as sung by Bobby Darin, written by Marc Blitzstein.

No Fat Clips!!! : MATT WHITE – The Old Man Who Cried Shark 2008

Colonna sonora: Mack the Knife cantata da Bobby Darin, scritta da Marc Blitzstein.

No Fat Clips!!! : MATT WHITE – The Old Man Who Cried Shark 2008

He is the author of Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein, and he collaborated with composer Earl Robinson on the autobiography Ballad of an American.

Eric A. Gordon. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

Changing pace and style as fast as the flick of a manicured fingernail, she reduced the crowd to awe with "I Wish It So," one of the last compositions ever written by Marc Blitzstein, from the fabulous score of the Broadway musical Juno.

Boone Treasures Clooney's Songbook 2005