Riley's pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the ...
The musical is, among other things, a perfect work for the current political moment, showing what America really was — and ...
Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.
Few are more complex than the piano, and, as it turns out, few are quite so hackable. Still, we have to admit that this ragtime piano hack took us by surprise. We always thought that the rich ...
But in the 1890s and 1900s, the sound of the just-emerging musical style conjured something very different: dancing, drinking ...
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A Big, Agnostic Ragtime
With its enfolding quilt of a score by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens of the kind that could be inscribed on a plaque, and book by Terrence McNally, all based on E.L. Doctorow’s landmark ...