Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In short, Ragtime details the lives of several people in 1906 New York.

CROWN POINT | Through music, pianist Deborrah Wyndham shares the history of our nation's first 'pop' music: ragtime. Also the beginnings of jazz, ragtime has gone on to influence many other musicians ...

Even though the Tony-award winning musical “Ragtime” focuses primarily on the early years of the 20th century, the show is an entire history of American political and social turmoil. “Ragtime” first ...

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, ...

The musical drama “Ragtime” opened on Broadway 18 years ago, but it’s not much of a stretch to call it a show for the Black Lives Matter era. Waiting for local theater vet Matt Sciple? Wait no more ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "All things old are new again", is proven true on stage at San Diego Musical ...

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 ...