Alan Cumming to
star in Threepenny Opera on Broadway

Playbill.com reports that out actor Alan Cumming will appear alongside Jim Dale, Edie Falco, and Nellie McKay in a new Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. This version, featuring a new adaptation of the text by Wallace Shawn, will open at Studio 54 on April 20. Cumming will play the lead role of Macheath, and Isaac Mizrahi will provide costumes, a task he is also fulfilling for the upcoming Broadway revival of Barefoot in the Park.