When the musical “Ragtime” first debuted on Broadway in 1998, it was a lavishly designed, stunningly crafted flop. The musical, based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow, explores ...

Ragtime is about the possibility and impossibility ... lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It blends the stories of a Black pianist from Harlem, Coalhouse Walker Jr. (a ...

Smith College. He relocated to St Louis in 1900 and worked closely with the publisher John Stark, who championed his earlier ragtime works. Joplin moved to New York in 1907 and penned his ...

The musical is based on the book (of the same name) by E.L. Doctorow (published in 1975). Ragtime first debuted in Toronto in 1996, but has the hallmarks of those “classic” musicals like WEST ...