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 genres-from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera-became 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 American-Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy.Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill\'s artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.