It is 1924, and the Harlem Renaissance Theater Company is deep into the final rehearsals of a ragtime musical about the life and times of President Warren G. Harding. Based on the memories of Alma, a ...

If racism and anti-immigrant bigotry, desperate poverty and corrupted wealth are in the headlines today, the 1998 Broadway musical “Ragtime” at the 5th Avenue Theatre is a compelling reminder that ...

Stage lights glisten off the shiny bells of the cornet and trombone as the band strikes up a strutting tune. The dance floor begins to fill with ladies in fringed dresses, many carrying fancy ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The question begged by this Kennedy Center production of Ragtime is not whether it deserved its transfer to New York: ...

He was on the road performing in a concert tour shortly after meeting the woman he’d marry, the late Marin Mazzie. She’d just gone to Toronto to star in a workshop of the new musical, and had shared ...

Hear the music, taste the food, and walk the cakewalk at Greenfield Village’s fourth annual Ragtime Street Fair. The fair, inspired by festivals of the early 20th century, will take place July 24-25 ...