Since the original Broadway production opened in 1998, RAGTIME has given audiences an epic view of New York at the turn of the 20th century. Characters from three groups - the white upper class, the newly arrived immigrants, and the community of ...

Many of Frank Loesser's male characters experience an inexplicable urge to keep moving from place to place, without any obligations tying them down.  From the gamblers and their floating craps game in GUYS & DOLLS to Joe's beautiful ode to wandering ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles analyzing the works of Stephen Sondheim, in preparation for his 80th birthday. Towards the end of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's legendary musical FOLLIES, any trace of a linear narrative falls away, ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles analyzing the works of Stephen Sondheim, in preparation for his 80th birthday. Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical, PACIFIC OVERTURES, traces the opening of Japan to the West - from the Japanese ...