Review: Ragtime at Curtainup/London
Seemingly not content with the existing complexities of a show that spans 17 years, has various plots and subplots, and a cast of 28, director Timothy Sheader overlays this production with h…
Seemingly not content with the existing complexities of a show that spans 17 years, has various plots and subplots, and a cast of 28, director Timothy Sheader overlays this production with h…
Atlanta Lyric Theatre has announced the five musicals that will make-up its 2012-2013 season. The season will consist of Cole Porter's Anything Goes (September 21-October 7); Irving Be…
Today we continue the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown with a match-up of epic proportions that seemed to signify more than merely friendly competition for theatres top honors being awarded t…
ThreeSixty theatre, Kensington Gardens; Open Air, Regent's Park; Olivier, LondonWhat is Rupert Goold up to? He has given the theatre some of the most exciting excursions of the past five yea…
Now here's a pearl of wisdom. "Don't go trying the same route twice," the Professor advises in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the CS Lewis children's classic adapted and staged by Rup…
It may be hard to claim Ragtime as the great Canadian musical. It's an adaptation of an American novel, with an American composer, lyricist and librettist
Timothy Sheader's production of the 1998 Broadway musical Ragtime opened at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre (where Sheader is artistic director), on 18 May. It runs in repertoire until 8 …
Open Air theatre, Regent's Park, LondonThis musical had the misfortune to receive its British premiere on the night in 2003 when America invaded Iraq. Now revived by Timothy Sheader, it…
Summer officially started in theatreland last night as the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park kicked off its new season with a revival of Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime. Artistic direct…
With show-stopping numbers and a Houdini escapology act, this is a production that matches its material in scope and audacity, writes Ian Shuttleworth
The participants in this year's annual West End LIVE have been announced. The free concerts in London's Trafalgar Square will take place on June 23 and 24 and mark the opening week…
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London: Repertoire and A Midsummer Night's Dream are both back at Regent's Park this year, but whereas the now annual musical usually comes last it…
Summer officially started in theatreland last night as the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park kicked off its new season with a revival of Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime. Artistic direct…
The opening of the 1998 Broadway musical Ragtime promises so much and delivers so little. America assembles at the turn of the last century in a syncopated company cakewalk, a ragtime stomp …
Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, in this shortened bank holiday week are: OPENING MONDAYRagtime28 MAY 2012(PREVIEWS FROM 18 MAY) Tony-Award winning B…
Jackie Maxwells ambitious pageant about America, both the place and the idea, slightly out of tune
Eden Kennedy and Jay Turvey (photo credit: David Cooper)The Music of Something BeginningShaw's Ragtime explodes off the stageby Dave Ross and Stuart MunroOur weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake h…
The Shaw Festival's Ragtime is a good time, not a great one. The standouts are Thom Allison as ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker and Kate Hennig as anarchist Emma Goldman.
You'll get a sensational feeling for that music of the early 1900's and life in New York City as Ragtime rolls into the Laurel Mill Playhouse to kick off the summer season. Directed by Micha…
The Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime, first developed in Toronto prior to Broadway, is now getting a major resident Canadian production on the opposite side of Lake Ontario, at the Shaw Fe…
The 51st season of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, officially began May 23 at the Festival Theatre with Present Laughter, and continues on with the Terrence McNally, Lynn …
The 51st season of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, officially begins May 23 at the Festival Theatre with the opening night of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, directed …
Students from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts , representing Hartford and 20 surrounding towns, will present Ragtime The Musical on Frday, May 4 as well as May 5, 10, 11 and 12…
Following the multi-award winning productions of Hello, Dolly! and Into The Woods, and a West End transfer for the 2011 record-breaking production of Crazy for You, the Regent's Park Open Ai…
Today we are talking to a Broadway superstar beloved from the time of her breakthrough performance in the original cast of Stephen Sondheims PASSION nearly twenty years ago all the way to tw…