Behind the Curtain Study Guide

Ragtime

Recommended for grades 9 – 12

This study guide for Ragtime strives to enrich your audience experience and deepen connections to our production, whether you’re sitting in our theater or engaging from across the country. It includes activities for the classroom, historical context, and behind the scenes interviews. To learn more about our work please click here.

This Behind the Curtain Study Guide was created by New York City Center's Education & Community Engagement department as a part of our mission to create exemplary, inclusive, responsive, and participatory artistic explorations inspired by City Center’s mission and performance offerings.

Creators & Characters

Joshua Henry Interview

Timeline

Activities

Career Spotlight: Daniel Koa Beaty

Glossary

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Community Night

Join us post-performance for the opportunity to engage in a civic dialogue with guest speakers from Amsterdam News, the Tenement Museum, the Urban League, artists, and each other around the theme of “Make Them Hear You.” The bars will remain open after the show, and we invite you to stay and make connections.

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Fri Nov 3

ASL Interpreted Performances

One signed performance will be offered for each production in the Encores! series, as well as the annual gala presentation. Tickets in view of the interpreters are $50 (plus a $3 facility fee per ticket) for all productions. Seats will be in Orchestra house right, which is the best view to ASL interpreters and the stage.

Ragtime
Thu Nov 7 at 7:30pm

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Encores!

The Encores! series, helmed by Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, Producing Creative Director Clint Ramos, Music Director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and VP & Producer of Musical Theater Jenny Gersten.

This series of concert stagings revisits the archives of American musical theater. Centered around The Encores! Orchestra, these revivals are produced with limited runs and rehearsal schedules, spotlighting the vocal talents of star-studded ensembles.