The Broadway production of Ragtime was a glorious accomplishment, a riveting testament to the original American musical and ...

In a world where we have a biracial president, drive foreign cars, wear clothes made in China and frequently dine in Mexican restaurants, we don’t seem to grasp the depth of prejudice experienced by ...

Twenty-five years ago, my parents brought me to New York to see Ragtime on Broadway. The show is set on the eve of the First World War and features three families —a Jewish refugee family from Latvia, ...

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Drawn from E.L. Doctorow’s popular novel, the 1998 musical Ragtime, now getting its first New York revival (Neil Simon Theatre), deals with blacks confronting white America. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ...

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...