In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill s experiments with a range of genresfrom one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-operabecame an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of two Weills one European, the other AmericanHinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of...