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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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new musical rhythm was given to the people : ragtime and representation in black Manhattan -- Do all we could to get what we felt belonged to us by the laws of nature : selling real Negro melodies ...

reviewed together with James Booker’s The Piano Prince of New Orleans. There are around 15 James Booker albums on the market, but in fact the Piano Prince released only five LPs of music during his ...