Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated discomfort with success ...

As a young pianist in Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Simas played in a prog-rock combo and a psychedelic rock band. But after he moved to New York City in 1989, his focus turned to writing and playing songs in ...

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 ...

In case you haven’t heard, “Ragtime” is one of the hottest Broadway shows this season. Playing at Lincoln Center Theater, the musical is set at the turn of the 20th century in New York and centers on ...

Broadway’s elite turned out on Thursday for the opening night of Lincoln Center Theater’s “Ragtime” revival, a production that artistic director Lear deBessonet thinks will resonate with audiences ...

There is only one thing missing from Lincoln Center Theater’s (LCT) superlative Broadway revival of the musical Ragtime: a decompression chamber for emotionally frazzled audience members to retreat to ...

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 ...

The new revival of the 1998 Broadway musical “Ragtime” gives us a good idea of what the 1981 film adaptation of E. L. Doctorow’s critically acclaimed 1975 bestseller would have been like if Steven ...

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 ...