Life Before Wartime

MetroWeekly.com – by Doug Rule

”Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,” says the show’s director Christopher Gallu. ”It’s got all these songs that were never intended to be put together in a single night of theater.”

Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Hanns Eisler and other noted German composers and writers all indirectly contributed to this charming cabaret, set in a café in early-1930s Berlin, as Hitler started his ascent to power. It gives some insight into this heady, hedonistic era of great music.