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When the musical Ragtime was produced for Broadway in 1998 it was a colossal, big-budget show. It cost some ten million dollars. What in the world were the folks at tiny little Union Avenue Opera thinking when they decided to include this show in their twenty-ninth season? Ragtime, the musical treatment of E. L. Doctorow’s vast rambling nostalgic, wonderfully American novel, is far removed from opera.
Things are back to normal for Union Avenue Opera, which presents "The Turn of the Screw," "Don Pasquale" and "Ragtime."
The final show of the academic year will put a spotlight on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as SIUE Theater and Dance performs the Broadway hit “Rent.”
ALTON — Even though the pandemic slowed down park performances last year, it could not...
'Each day through Christmas OE virtually gave to me' Cherished carols, festive favorites, holiday classics FacebookTwitterEmail 1of14 Cellist Stephanie Hunt and pianist Joseph Welch perform an arrangement of “We Three Kings,” recorded at The Wildey Theatre, Edwardsville, for “The 12 Days of Opera Edwardsville,” the nonprofits new virtual holiday event. The concert-series event is free for the public to view to at www.operaedwardsville.org. Tune in daily, or watch the full program now through Wednesday, Dec. 23.Photo credit Scott Evers|For The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 2of14 Once Fil...