RAGTIME
Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre
July 17-26
Fort Thomas
Directed by Jason Burgess
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 New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. Historical figures in the stories include Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry Kendall Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman.
- Fri-Sat, July 17-18 at 7:30pm
- Sun, July 19 at 2pm
- Fri-Sat, July 24-25 at 7:30pm
- Sun, July 26 at 2pm
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