A day after the Tony Award committee withdrew Santo Loquasto’s 2010 Best Costume nomination for the Broadway revival of Ragtime, the Drama Desk Awards have followed suit. Both the Tony and Drama Dresk committees ruled that Loquasto’s work on the revival was too similar to his 1998 designs for the original show to be eligible for awards honors ...

The Broadway revival of Ragtime will now close on January 10, 2010. The show had posted a closing date of January 3 earlier this week but, due to ticket demand, will now play an additional week of performances.

Based on the epic novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime features a score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, a book by ...

The Broadway revival of Ragtime will close on January 3, 2010, after 28 previews and 57 regular performances. The musical began previews on October 23 and opened on November 15 at the Neil Simon Theatre, directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.

“While we’re saddened and disappointed to announce that Ragtime must close, bringing this beautiful and powerful production ...

As 2009 winds down, Broadway.com asked your favorite stars to look back on personal highlights from the past year and share their resolutions for 2010. Read on to be inspired—and have a Happy New Year!

CHRISTIANE NOLL (Mother in Ragtime)

Highlight of 2009: “The birth of my daughter. She has brought me such joy and taught me so ...

The holiday season is officially in full swing, and Broadway.com is heading backstage to capture all the festivities in a series of videos hosted by real-life Broadway kids! Our young roving reporters will ask the stars about Christmas traditions, Hanukkah games and seasonal songs, capturing all the joy of the most wonderful time of the year on the Great ...

Christiane Noll is a fabulous singer and stage actress, lovely and poised, and she’s worked a ton—but in the decade since she debuted on Broadway as demure Emma in Jekyll and Hyde, she hasn’t had great luck getting back to New York in shows like The Witches of Eastwick and Mambo Kings. Not one to sit still ...

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Robert Petkoff is versatile enough to play the cowardly knight Sir Robin in Spamalot (on tour and then on Broadway), Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (at BAM, directed by Sir Peter Hall), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (at Hartford Stage) and now a rather sexy Tateh in the Broadway revival of Ragtime. When Broadway.com ...

They placed third in The Amazing Race (which ain’t bad!), and after an action-packed season as reality stars, former Miss America Ericka Dunlap and her husband, Brian Kleinschmidt, arrived in the Big Apple for a little R&R. On December 4, aspiring country singer Ericka and her hubby took in a performance of Ragtime at Broadway’s Neil Simon ...

Theater vet and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg made time in her busy schedule for a Broadway outing on December 1. Her choice: Ragtime! The Oscar-winning funny lady headed to the Neil Simon Theatre to see the sumptuous revival of the multi-strand musical, blessed with a title tune and at least three other songs we can never stop humming. After ...

Excitement. Exhilaration. Joy. Those are just three of the happy adjectives that describe the mood on opening night of the Broadway revival of Ragtime. From famous folks praising friends on the creative team during arrivals at the Neil Simon Theatre to the dolled-up actors and creators greeting the press at Tavern on the Green, the atmosphere on November 15 was ...