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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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 ...

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 ...

With a script that's been revisited and deepened by the playwright 30 years after it was first published, Shakespeare & Company presents GOLDEN LEAF RAGTIME BLUES by Charles Smith, at the Elayne P.

Justin Banks (L) and Dennis Cockrum in Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues at American Blues Theater Credit: Michael Brosilow Like a slow-burning comedy routine, Charles Smith’s Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues takes ...

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.

The story of a young African American boy and an aging vaudevillian thrown together in circumstances beyond their control, Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues explores their unusual connection, as discovered ...

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 ...