<cite>Ragtime</cite> stirs up America's 1900s melting pot, by Michael Kuchwara
Wonderfully drawn from E.L. Doctorow's novel, this 1997 musical by Terrence McNally (book) and the team of Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) now triumphantly returns to Broadway in a powerful new production that opened Sunday at the Neil Simon Theatre.