'Ragtime' has superb singing, emotional storytelling By Mary Carole McCauley
Kennedy Center's $4.4 million staging is astounding
Kennedy Center's $4.4 million staging is astounding
The Broadway revival of Ragtime aims to give a modern twist to the turn of the 20th century-as Joan Marcus's exclusive cast portraits suggest.
It is good to have Ragtime back on Broadway. The 1998 show, with book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, is a significant musical that narrowly misses being a great one. Even so, compared to what nowadays passes for a great musical (Wicked, for example), Ragtime is nothing short of a masterpiece.
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 Broad…
Ragtime, the Tony Award-winning musical about the American melting pot bubbling over, returns to Broadway.
In most important ways, director Marcia Milgrom Dodge's economical staging retains the infectiously melodious appeal of the version that worked to such stimulating effect in the Kennedy Cent…
I think Garth Drabinsky would have loved to see that Ragtime wasn't the wrong show. It just needed the right time.
The Arvada Center has canceled tonight’s opening night performance of “Ragtime” because of the illness of a lead actor, and the lack of an immediately available understudy.…