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Stage Door: Ragtime, My Wonderful Day

Fern Siegel | Posted 11.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Alan Ayckbourn, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, E.L. Doctorow, Emma Goldman, Evelyn Nesbit, Ayesha Antoine, Harry Houdini, New York News
Fern Siegel

Ragtime is a sweeping, ambitious revival that, with the election of Barack Obama, carries added resonance. The musical, an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel, is not to be missed.

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Broadway Looks at Racism in the Obama Era

David Finkle | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: E. Y. Harburg, Shrek, Broadway Plays and Musicals, South Pacific, Hamlet, Barack Obama Influence, Oscar Hammerstein, Finian's Rainbow, Memphis, Avenue Q, West Side Story, Jude Law, Race, After Miss Julie, August: Osage County, E.L. Doctorow, Burton Lane, Hair, Racism, In the Heights, Patrick Marber, Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Superior Donuts, Ragtime, New York News
David Finkle

Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.

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Doctorow's Bleak House

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow, Collyer Brothers, Entertainment News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Doctorow isn't really interested, as he's been so often before, in illuminating America's past. His subjects, of course, are the nutball Collyer brothers and their activities in and around their Fifth Avenue mansion.

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New York Books to Look for this Fall

Greg Mortimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: New Books, Fall Books, Author, Books, New York, Henry Hudson, Homer and Langley, E.L. Doctorow, New York News
Greg Mortimer

Books written in and about the City of New York, its food, its maps; from Jonathan Lethem, Times restaurant critic William Grimes, and more.

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An Audio Book Review: Forget Butch and Sundance, Etta's the Real Star Here

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Kid Curry, The Sundance Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Trotsky, Etta Place, The Wild Bunch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Gerald Koplan, Annie Oakley, The Hole in the Wall Gang, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Dos Passos, Blackstone Audio, Butch Cassidy, Kirsten Potter, E.L. Doctorow, The Pinkerton Detective Agency, The Harvey Girls, Katherine Ross, Ann Hathaway, The Black Hand, A Novel, Robert Redford, Etta, Media News
Tom Alderman

In this imaginative and fictional biography, Etta Place can shoot a gun as well as Annie Oakley, ride a horse like Buffalo Bill and rob banks with the skill of an experienced outlaw.

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E.L. Doctorow Among Nominees For International Book Prize

AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Prizes, Man Booker International Prize, Prizes, Man Booker Prize, E.L. Doctorow, Media News

NEW YORK — "Ragtime" novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker I...

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