Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. American Blues Theater will present the Chicago premiere of Artistic ...

COVID policy: Masks are encouraged but optional, unless attending a designated mask-required performance. The 82-year-old Pompey (Glenn Barrett, who has been too-long absent from Berkshires stages) is ...

Charles Smith and Chuck Smith, two venerable artists with a long and auspicious history in Chicago theater, don’t just have similar names. They’ve been friends and collaborators for close to 40 years.

Times have changed, to a degree, and so has Smith. So, when director Raz Golden approached Smith with the notion of taking another look at his four-character play, the playwright agreed. Golden liked ...

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Ragtime duo Cherry and Jerry took an audience back in time as they performed early Blues music Sunday at Missouri River Regional Library. Heads were swaying and feet were stomping as the piano and ...

John Edward Hasse realized early on that, though music was something he deeply loved, he wasn't cut out for the life of a working musician. During his sophomore year in college, Hasse made a trip to ...

Casting is complete for Lincoln Center Theater's fall revival of Ragtime at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Directed by Lear deBessonet, performances will begin September 25 ahead of an October 16 ...

Visitors will be rollicking at the Fair Grounds for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this weekend and next, but there's a sleepy stretch of Perdido Street where music once was just as ...

Biographical and program notes by M. McCormick and texts of the songs ([9] p. ill.) bound in. Performer(s): Principally blues and ballads; Henry Thomas (an Afro-American hobo) accompanying himself on ...