This historical pageant reminds us that we are still living in days of injustice.

The Kennedy Center’s recent production of Ragtime will be making its way to Broadway, critic Peter Marks reports today. The show, which was not originally slated for Broadway, will reopen at the Neil Simon Theatre Nov. 15. We were moved by the epic production when it was in town, which will stay largely the same with some cast changes and set adaptations. Between this news, the success of 33 Variations and Next To Normal…

It’s exciting when a show with epic scope and epic ambitions translates into epic results. It happens in Kennedy Center’s production of Ragtime. Everything about this show is big – its soaring, steely set with no less than four staircases; its lavish costumes; the echoing sounds of its chorus and orchestral accompaniment (just hear them soar in the rousing Act I closer, “Till We Reach That Day”). The musical itself covers decades, intertwining the…