Reviews for ‘Ragtime’ revival, stars announced for ‘All Out,’ big names join Encores season Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top theatre headli…

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Wow! That's the interjection of the day and the singular way to describe the powerful and emotionally stirring revival of Ragtime that opened tonight at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Review of the Sunday, September 28, 2025 matinee performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Starring Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Le…

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Some musicals arrive when we need them most — not just as entertainment, but as echo and prophecy. Ragtime, with a book by Terrence McNally, a score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and based on the sweep…

Check out video highlights from the star-studded new revival of the beloved musical Ragtime, now playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. The beloved Tony Award-winning musical, features music …

RAGTIME is a sweeping musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s novel that follows three fictional families in pursuit of the American Dream at the dawn of the 20th Century: Black pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. an…

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From the moment the chorus rises from the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater during the opening number of Ragtime, you know you’re in for something special—a big Broadway musical with what seems like a ca…

It’s a thrilling experience, though on the Vivian Beaumont Theater’s vast stage this pageant of a musical feels a bit skimpy. Not that the musical needs opulent sets, but it does call for stunning stagecraf…

Ragtime culminates with two huge 11 o’clock numbers, from Henry and Levy, a Tony-winner and Olivier-nominee whose names are rightfully big draws to the show. Yet the showstopping vocal moment still fresh in m…

Ragtime settles into a richer and more internal mode quickly, in a large part due to the textured performances of its leads and the thought they’ve applied to Ahrens and Flaherty’s score. The post America i…

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While deBessonet could have better provided a certain focus or point of view – Ragtime‘s telling of America’s immigrant tale is, at this point in history, ripe for the picking – she certainly brings out…

Henry has been at the forefront of Broadway leading men for 15 years, but this show is his triumph. He takes one of the most demanding roles in the Broadway canon and he does it full justice. The post Ragtime a…

One year ago, seated at City Center, I cried at both numbers and left the theater deeply shaken. If that same power hasn’t quite held, it is perhaps no fault of a broadly first-rate production. Hope is of les…

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, and Nichelle Lewis lead director Lear deBessonet's revival of the Ahrens and Flaherty musical.

The curtain rises tonight on Ragtime, opening at the Vivian Beaumont Theater as Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s first production of her inaugural season at Lincoln Center Theater. The beloved Tony Award-w…

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Theatrely's Broadway review of Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theatre in New York City.

Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates with the dire…

It is a serenade to the possibilities of life, even when we are mired in tyranny and beaten down by hypocricy.  Ragtime gives us hope to hold onto today, where hope for many of us is in short supply.  Joshua …

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.

★★★★★ Joshua Henry gives what’s destined to be a Tony-winning performance in this much-needed revival The post Ragtime: Breaking Our Hearts, Opening A Door appeared first on New York Stage Review.

The second Broadway revival of Ahrens, Flaherty, and McNally's musical about America opens, powerful as ever, at Lincoln Center. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: Ragtime at the Vivian Beaumont Theater …

★★★★★ Following last year's lauded City Center concert, The great musical returns to Broadway with its stellar cast intact led by Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz The post Ragtime: A T…

When Ragtime was first staged in the mid-1990s, it embodied a certain post-Reagan excess with producer Garth Drabinksy’s elaborate, budget-busting staging (fireworks! a working Model T!) and the epic sweep of…

By David Sheward October 16, 2025: Ragtime has been never been more relevant and Lear deBessonet’s epic production for Lincoln Center Theater where she has recently been installed as artistic director, fills…

By Paulanne Simmons October 16, 2025: When Ragtime made its world premiere in Toronto in 1996, it seemed that E.L. Doctorow’s vision of an inclusive America might not be that far from reality. Now, when this…

By Samuel L. Leiter October 16, 2025: Lear deBessonet makes a stunning debut as the Kewsong Lee Artistic Director at Lincoln Center with her magnificent revival of the musical Ragtime (1996, Toronto; 1997, Los…

Stripping away the excesses of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally’s 1996 musical about the turn of the 20th century amplifies its many, many flaws.  

Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates with the dire…

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, first staged…

Review by Ron Fassler . . . Eleven months ago, the City Center Annual Gala Presentation of Ragtime, minimally staged by director Lear DeBessonet, received excellent reviews (mine among them). Hopes that it …

The revival of “Ragtime” has taken on more of the epic feel to which it aspires, thanks to its move from an Encores series concert to a full Broadway production on the Vivian Beaumont’s grander stage, tur…

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