In the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian desert, Tateh Lehbib Braica – aka ‘the crazy bottle guy’ – has built circular houses from waste plastic that protect from wind and sun A group of women ...

“America is one giant Shtetl, where I swear life is great,” a man sings in Yiddish as he and his young daughter approach Ellis Island: “A shtetl iz amerike / A mekhaye, khlebn.” These are lyrics from ...

Twenty-five years ago, my parents brought me to New York to see Ragtime on Broadway. The show is set on the eve of the First World War and features three families —a Jewish refugee family from Latvia, ...

Tateh Lehbib builds homes out of plastic bottles filled with sand and straw. In a refugee camp in Algeria, one man is building houses out of recycled plastic bottles. Tateh Lehbib Barika is no ...

Tateh is a role in Ragtime, a musical that opened West End in 2016. Thom Sutherland directs a new production of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally's multi Tony award winning muscial, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Blake Hackler as Tateh, Bri Woods as Sarah, Akron Watson as Coalhouse Walker Jr. and Tiffany Solano as Mother star in ...

I first encountered the musical Ragtime in middle school. At that age, most things pass through you; this show did not. What I remember most vividly is Coalhouse Walker Jr.—not only the injustice he ...

TINDOUF, Algeria - With temperatures soaring beyond 50 degrees Celsius and sand storms wrecking havoc on the Sahrawi refugees inhabiting the adobe houses and tents of the refugee camps around Tindouf, ...

Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical Ragtime, ...