THE STAGE

Brief Lives is a good series of vignettes based on the life and work of John Aubrey, the 17th century collector of English eccentricity and author or Brief Lives, which you might have to know about for your orals in certain departments. The performance at the Loeb comes straight from Broadway and Roy Dotrice--who created the part--will be starring. Thurs-Sun at 8 p.m.

Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill's widow, and the original star of Weill's Threepenny Opera, will be in Boston for an "evening of song, poetry and conversation" at the Cabaret at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St. Lenya is a great singer and a great woman, something like the other side of Marlene Dietrich. There's no way this evening won't be worth it. Monday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m.