TPAC Produces

From putting on an annual show free to all Tulsa Public Schools kindergarteners to huge stage spectacles, the Tulsa Performing Arts Center is making its mark on local theatre, creating some of the most beautiful, incredible theatre in the region.

Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. Directed by Sara Phoenix. Music Direction by Mark Frie and Choreography by Jen Alden. Based on the 1975 book by E.L. Doctorow.

At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing … and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together — that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant, and a daring young Harlem musician — united by their courage, compassion, and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live in America. With a Tony-winning score featuring musical theatre show-stoppers, Ragtime is filled with pageantry, emotion, and hope, bursting onto the stage like no other musical.