... at www.trinityrep.com/ragtime. The musical interweaves the stories of an upper-class white family living in New Rochelle, N.Y. at the turn of the 20th century, an African American musician from Harlem named Coalhouse Walker Jr., and Tateh, a Latvian ...
... at www.trinityrep.com/ragtime . The musical interweaves the stories of an upper-class white family living in New Rochelle, NY at the turn of the 20th century, an African American musician from Harlem named Coalhouse Walker, Jr., and Tateh, a Latvian ...
Revival Theatre Company proudly opens its fourth season with Ragtime in Concert written by Terrence McNally, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Ragtime, set in early 20th century New York City, introduces the American experience through three different perspectives: 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 New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia.