E. L. Doctorow

“RAGTIME”: Set during the Scott Joplin era at the turn of the 20th century, this musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel tells the intertwining stories of three families who come from vastly different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. May 1-27. Asolo Repertory Theatre, Mertz Stage, 5555 N. Tamiami ...

Wheelock Family Theatre (WFT) proudly announces three shows coming to the mainstage in our 2018-2019 season. With adaptations of novels by Lois Lowry, E.L. Doctorow, and Roald Dahl, WFT's upcoming season offers all the wonders of literature come to life. Characters give voice to their own stories ...

The musical Ragtime, like the panoramic E.L. Doctorow novel it's based on, is set in an America of over a century ago. But, with its themes related to diversity and the immigrant experience, it feels particularly timely today as well—and that's especially so in the version opening this month at Asolo Rep.

When Forman adapted E.L Doctorow's sprawling novel “Ragtime,” he zeroed in on the story of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.), a black musician who turns to violence after bigoted firemen vandalize his Model-T because he has no legal recourse and no politician will touch his cause.

More like Billy Wilder than Frank Capra, Forman was attuned to the U.S.'s dark side as well as its promise, which may be why his take on Hair's free-love celebration felt stilted, and the scope of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime stymied the looseness of Forman's best movies. But he hit the target again with Amadeus ...

The adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel, notable for Forman's ability to persuade his aging Connecticut neighbor Jimmy Cagney to end 20 years of retirement and play the corrupt police commissioner, also was a disappointment. Forman returned to top form three years later, however, when he released ...

Bellow agrees. “When I was young,” he said, “it was not uncommon for people like Normal Mailer, and Gore Vidal and E.L. Doctorow, and my father, to come out and engage in public controversy and arguments about politics and society.” Yet in the past several decades, Bellow has watched writers retreat ...

Based on the celebrated 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow, the musical tackles race, women's rights, immigration, and workers' rights. Ragtime runs April 26 - May 27 in Trinity Rep's Elizabeth and Malcom Chace Theater, with press opening on Monday, April 30 at 7:30 pm. Tickets start at $25.

Some of those visitors have included Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Nadine Gordimer, C.K. Williams, Jamaica Kincaid, Karen Russell, Ben Lerner, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Jonathan Franzen, John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Adrienne Rich, and many others. The series has worked to bring established and ...

Des Moines Playhouse's Announces 99th Season Finale: RAGTIME The Des Moines Community Playhouse presents "Ragtime," Apr. 6-29, 2018. Tickets may be purchased online at dmplayhouse.com, by phone at 515-277-6261, or at the Playhouse ticket office, 831 42nd St. "Ragtime" is sponsored by Des ...

The Jazz Age saw a brief resurgence in the 1970s, thanks to movies like The Great Gatsby and novels like E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, but those works depict America as a font of wealth, luxury, and frivolity. For Waits, jazz conveyed deprivation and poverty, down-and-outers making the most of a few bucks ...

“I never have even the slightest clue. I depend upon my characters to take me by the hand and lead me through the dark of the story. I've always loved the E.L. Doctorow observation: 'Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way ...

Omega Jones is nominated as outstanding actor in a musical for playing Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Stray Dog Theatre's “Ragtime,” the 1996 musical based on the E.L. Doctorow novel about the African-American experience in 1900s New York. Born and raised in St. Louis, Jones, 26, came home from ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It's hard to imagine a more “American” musical than “Ragtime,” the 1998 Broadway hit adapted from the novel by E.L. Doctorow that tells the stories of African-Americans, Jewish immigrants and upper middle class white Protestants in New York City in the first decade of the 20th ...

EL Doctorow said that writing was like driving at night in the fog and I agree. In fact it's a dark, unfamiliar road in thick fog: the headlights give you something of the next few yards – snatches of trees, a gateway – and sometimes you get a glimpse of something significant down the line, house lights on a ...

In New York City, the lives of a wealthy white couple, a Jewish immigrant and a black ragtime musician intersect and intertwine in a story about the American dream and the meaning of family. The writing team is Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow.

The acclaimed Stepinac Theatre will present a production of "Ragtime," the Tony-Award winning musical based on the distinguished novel by E.L. Doctorow, as its spring musical. Five performances will be staged at Stepinac High School's Major Bowes Auditorium, 950 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains ...

In New York City, the lives of a wealthy white couple, a Jewish immigrant and a black ragtime musician intersect and intertwine in a story about the American dream and the meaning of family. The writing team is Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow.

Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, "Ragtime" tells the story of three groups in the United States in the early 20th century: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in ...

... The Distance,” Samantha Hunt for “The Dark Dark,” Achy Obejas for “The Tower of the Antilles” and Joan Silber for “Improvement.” The winner, announced April 4, receives $15,000 and other nominees receive $5,000. Previous PEN/Faulkner winners include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett and E.L. Doctorow.

... for “The Dark Dark,” Achy Obejas for “The Tower of the Antilles” and Joan Silber for “Improvement.” The winner, announced April 4, receives $15,000 and other nominees receive $5,000. Previous PEN/Faulkner winners include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett and E.L. Doctorow. Also On New Pittsburgh Courier: ...

... The Distance," Samantha Hunt for "The Dark Dark," Achy Obejas for "The Tower of the Antilles" and Joan Silber for "Improvement." The winner, announced April 4, receives $15,000 and other nominees receive $5,000. Previous PEN/Faulkner winners include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett and E.L. Doctorow.

The musical “Ragtime” is based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow. It inter- twines historical and fictional characters, showing the conflict of the upper white class with the black underclass and the straining flow of immigrants into America at the turn of the century. It won four Tony Awards, including Best ...

While “Ragtime” the musical is based on the popular 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, ragtime music as a genre stems primarily from the work of pianist Scott Joplin. But for Choice, it's much more than that. “We speak about ragtime as a music style, but it's almost as if ragtime is something else to us in this show ...

“Ragtime,” based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, features different early 20th century lifestyles in the New York City area with many historical characters woven into the story, including Booker T. Washington, played by Chase Boggs and Dustin Harris; Harry Houdini, played by Jimmy Cherry and Aiden ...

“Ragtime,” however, wasn't based on the film; both their musical and Milos Forman's 1981 film were based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow. ‒ “Seussical” debuted on Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre Nov. 30, 2000. After its initial run, celebrities have stepped into the role of Cat in the Hat, including ...

The moving story, based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, centers on three groups of people in the United States -in New York City, specifically - around the the turn of the 20th century. We follow them as they each take us through their American experience; three different facets of society and three ...

Ragtime: Berkeley Playhouse presents the sweeping 1988 Broadway musical based on E. L. Doctorow's novel about hopes and dreams in an America facing change at the turn of the 20th century. [2 p.m., Berkeley Playhouse, Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave., Berkeley]. Gustafer Yellowgold Show: ...

Based on the best-selling novel by E.L. Doctorow, "Ragtime" has enough material for a 12-part miniseries but has been compressed into a single Broadway musical that is entertaining, enlightening and ultimately quite touching. There is a lot of absorb in "Ragtime," and at times the going gets quite dark ...

Rick Dines continues his long association with Springfield Contemporary Theatre by directing the new production of the Tony-winning musical “Ragtime,” based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, tonight through March 4th at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza. While “epic” and “SCT Center Stage” don't naturally ...

It's not for nothing that director Nick Bowling selected Ragtime for the 2018 season at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. When he read the book for the 1996 play, which was based on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel, Bowling saw a different world than he'd seen 12 years ago, one more fraught with the ...

E. L. Doctorow died on July 21, 2015, about a month after Donald J. Trump announced and commenced his run for President of the United States. These events were not related, but they have since become fused in my mind. Doctorow was my favorite living writer, and when Trump began his campaign by ...

Based on the historical novel of the same title by E. L. Doctorow, “Ragtime” tells the story of three groups of Americans (a wealthy white family living in the suburb of New Rochelle, a Jewish immigrant and his daughter living in the tenements of New York and respected African-American ragtime pianist ...

Some of those visitors have included Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Nadine Gordimer, C.K. Williams, Jamaica Kincaid, Karen Russell, Ben Lerner, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Jonathan Franzen, John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Adrienne Rich, and many others. The series has worked to bring established and ...