Ragtime at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Daily Herald - Highly Recommended

"...While director Jerrell L. Henderson's talented cast includes a few Chicago veterans, it's also comprised of transplants new to the Chicago scene along with recent college graduates and undergraduate students in their professional debuts. From the rousing opening number to the wistful ballad "New Music" to the cheeky, novelty number "What a Game!" this is perhaps the most vocally impressive Metropolis ensemble I've witnessed in the 16-plus years I've covered the Arlington Heights theater."

Life and Times - Highly Recommended

"...Ragtime is far and away the best production Metropolis has ever put on and you should go see it. It’s that simple."

NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"...Doctorow wrote the 1975 novel as a pre-bicentennial nostalgia memoir; the 1996 musical became a pre-millennial look back over our shoulder. (It is worth noting that Doctorow would not allow his novel to become a musical without maintaining creative control over the project.) And yet it is astonishing how contemporary it still feels further into another century than the time period portrayed in the last century. As the new Metropolis Performing Arts Centre production demonstrated at its Saturday night opening, it's as if "Ragtime" were ripped right out of today's headlines."