America has come a long way since 1975, when E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime first hit shelves — and longer still since the Progressive era swept through the country in the early 20th century. So it's ...

Ladies with parasols, fellows with tennis balls, radical anarchists, eccentric millionaires... Ragtime is filled with ...

In Ragtime, it looks as if the sun is always rising or setting inside the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It’s a vast room, squat and wide—it can act, quite naturally, as a cavern—and in transferring her ...

“Ragtime” is generous to all of its characters, not unlike “The Gilded Age,” the TV show with Broadway stars. Its foundational belief in “our children” seems corny today, especially at the end. But ...

First staged in Toronto in 1996, Ragtime has returned to New York courtesy of the Lincoln Center Theater, this time calling upon the talents of venerated Broadway stars Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and ...