Broadway shows setting Christmas Week records were Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Ragtime, Just In Time and Harry Potter ...

Ellenore Scott reflects on the process of opening a Broadway show while pregnant, and delivering her baby the next morning.

Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, revitalized by the recent casting of the film franchise’s Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, once again topped the box office roster with a magical gross of ...

Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell are going back to before. The Tony-winning duo reunited on Thursday, Oct. 16, at the opening night performance of Lincoln Center Theater’s triumphant revival ...

When Joplin first traveled to St. Louis in 1885, at age 17, ragtime was so new, composers and publishers were still arguing about how to mark syncopation on sheet music. Joplin grew up in Texarkana, ...

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“Nothing much happens in a year. The world will not spin off its axis. Nothing will change, Mother. We will miss each other but the world will stay the same.” – Terrence McNally, Ragtime 3 - “Journey ...

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what ...

BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...