The Department of Theatre & Dance will present Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” Nov. 14-18 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m.Wednesday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

“The Threepenny Opera,” written by Brecht with music by Kurt Weill, will receive a full production with orchestra and include newly designed and executed sets, lights and costumes. Vincent O’Neill, associate professor of theate and director of theatre performance, will direct the production. Nathan R. Matthews, associate professor and director of music theatre, will serve as the show’s music director and conductor; Marlee Stoka will choreograph.

The cast is comprised of students from the Music Theatre and Dance programs.

Set in Victorian London, the play focuses on Macheath, an amoral, anti-heroic criminal. After only knowing each other for five days, Macheath marries Polly Peachum. This displeases her father, who controls the beggars of London, and he endeavors to have Macheath hanged, but his attempts are hindered by the fact that the chief of police is Macheath’s old army comrade. Still, Peachum exerts his influence and eventually gets Macheath arrested and sentenced to hang. Macheath escapes this fate when, in an unrestrained parody of a happy ending, a messenger from the Queen arrives to pardon Macheath and grant him the title of Baron.

Tickets for “The Threepenny Opera” are $20 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors. They may be purchased at the Center for the Arts box office and at Tickets.com.