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.

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 ...

Shakespeare & Company has announced the cast of Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues by Charles Smith, to be staged at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from September 23 through October 30. Directed by Raz ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blues, ragtime, Creole culture, and Buddy Bolden1902 is a decisive year as the "eve" of the birth of jazz.In New Orleans, music began to blend: the blues transformed in the city, ragtime matured, Creo ...

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 ...

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