Ragtime to transfer to Broadway – initial casting revealed

A revival of the Tony-winning musical Ragtime will open at Lincoln Center Theater in New York this autumn.

Performances will begin on 26 September at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, with opening night set for 16 October. The run is currently limited to 14 weeks.

Ragtime will be the first production under the company’s new artistic leadership of Lear deBessonet. DeBessonet stages the musical, as she did a concert mounting at New York City Center in the autumn of 2024. It features a book by Terrence McNally and score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, inspired by the novel by E L Doctorow.

Like that version, the Broadway revival will be led by Joshua Henry as Coalhouse Walker Jr., Tony winner Brandon Uranowitz as Tateh, and WhatsOnStage Award nominee Caissie Levy as Mother, with a full orchestra performing the original orchestrations by William David Brohn.

Of deBessonet’s New York City Center production, our sibling site TheaterMania’s Zachary Stewart wrote in his review, “For devotees of musical theater the real draw is hearing the very best Ahrens and Flaherty score sung by top-tier Broadway talent.” This is the second Broadway revival of the now-classic musical, following a 2010 staging at the Neil Simon Theatre. It premiered in 1998 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

Full casting and additional details will be revealed at a later date.