The 1981 movie Time Bandits really did a number on me as a kid. I went into it expecting an unofficial Monty Python film, since half the legendary comedy troupe was involved: Terry Gilliam directed it ...

Given how often today’s news outlets distort the truth or report outright lies, it’s almost comical that E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime was once dismissed by The New Yorker‘s editor William Shawn.

Ragtime is going into overtime on Broadway. The musical revival’s producers said today that Ragtime‘s run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater has been extended for an additional 23 weeks. The show that had ...

When the first notes of “Ragtime” rise from the orchestra pit at Amarillo Little Theatre, they’ll mark the culmination of a long-held dream for Managing Artistic Director Jason Crespin. “It’s a show ...

Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical Ragtime, ...

2 hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 W. 65th St. When massive musicals are downsized, the typical argument in favor of the choice is that fewer sets and ...

Book writer Terrence McNally artfully adapted Doctorow’s densely packed, historical novel which, from the start, seemed destined to be a musical. (Its title alone would get the theatrical rights ...

The story of churning human collision in and around 1906 New York City, “Ragtime” swept onto Broadway in 1998 fully convinced of its own importance. As Michelle Obama would say years later of ...

“When he is old enough, I will show him America,” sings Coalhouse Walker Jr. to Sarah, the mother of his baby son, at a key moment in the musical “Ragtime,” now in a triumphant Broadway revival at ...

Standing ovations on Broadway are so common you might imagine the seats have been booby-trapped to eject patrons as the curtain calls begin. But at a recent performance of the brightly shining revival ...

Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates with the ...