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WSJ

‘Ragtime’ Review: A Stirring American Panorama on Broadway

A sterling cast makes the most of a marvelous score in Lincoln Center Theater’s admirably trenchant revival of this complex musical, set at the turn of the 20th century.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ragtime-review-a-stirring-american-panorama-on-broadway-7fc41113

 

Chicago Tribune/NY Daily News

BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘Ragtime’ score still soars thanks to Henry, Levy

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/16/broadway-review-ragtime-joshua-henry-caissie-levy

 

B from Entertainment Weekly

Ragtime review: The wheels of a dream turn down an all too familiar path in stirring Broadway revival

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz lead a powerhouse ensemble.

https://ew.com/ragtime-review-broadway-musical-revival-joshua-henry-11830751

McHenry in Vulture is mixed to positive

America in Major and Minor Keys: Ragtime Returns

https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-ragtime-beaumont-lincoln-center-joshua-henry.html

"DeBessonet’s production opens schematically, with the various factions at play marching around each other. She’s a merely competent director of a large ensemble, and Ellenore Scott’s choreography, especially in a later scene at Henry Ford’s factory where people’s arms act as machinery, is overliteral. But 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."

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"High points like that, when those voices combine with James Moore’s sumptuous orchestra and crystallize into an omnisensory wallop, make this Ragtime impossible to dismiss, even if it’s awfully easy to quibble with. And I could keep quibbling"

The other New York Stage Review review

Ragtime: Breaking Our Hearts, Opening A Door

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★★ Joshua Henry gives what’s destined to be a Tony-winning performance in this much-needed revival

https://nystagereview.com/2025/10/16/ragtime-breaking-our-hearts-opening-a-door

Deadline:

‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: Lincoln Center Reclaims A Gem

https://deadline.com/2025/10/ragtime-broadway-review-1236583715

NYP 

2 1/2 stars. Doesn't like the show ("Stripping away the excesses of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally’s 1996 musical amplifies its many, many flaws."), praises the cast.

‘Ragtime’ review: Broadway revival still misses — but has sensational singing

https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/entertainment/ragtime-review-broadway-revival-still-misses-but-has-sensational-singing

Theatermania

Review: Ragtime Revival is Broadway at Its Best

The epic Ahrens and Flaherty musical opens the deBessonet era at Lincoln Center Theater with a bang.

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-ragtime-revival-is-broadway-at-its-best_1807685

The Wrap

Hofler is contrarian as usual

‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: A Revival Staged as if Directed by Spielberg

The numbing up of popular musicals continues with the stage adaptation of E. L. Doctorow’s novel about racism in America

https://www.thewrap.com/ragtime-broadway-review

Variety

‘Ragtime’ Review: Broadway Revival Is a Timely, Glorious Panorama of Changing Times in America

https://variety.com/2025/legit/reviews/ragtime-review-broadway-lincoln-center-theater-1236554453

Daily Beast

Broadway’s ‘Ragtime’ Revival Is a Staggering, Stunning Triumph

MAKE THEM HEAR YOU

This is an absolute can’t-miss production.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/broadways-ragtime-revival-is-a-staggering-stunning-triumph

NYT Critic's Pick from Laura Collins-Hughes

‘Ragtime’ Review: Checking the Status of Our American Dream

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/theater/ragtime-review-henry-debessonet.html

"while deBessonet’s “Ragtime” production for Lincoln Center Theater, which opened on Thursday night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, has much the same glorious cast it had last fall, the cultural climate has altered its alchemy. The considerable beauty of this inspiriting show — full of complicated emotions about our diaspora nation — is streaked with melancholy."

NY Stage Review

Ragtime: A Triumphant Revival For Our Time

By Roma Torre

★★★★★ 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

https://nystagereview.com/2025/10/16/ragtime-a-triumphant-revival-for-our-time

NYT:

Review: Aubrey Plaza Shines in Ethan Coen’s Retrograde ‘Let’s Love!’

It’s unusual for an Atlantic Theater Company production to feel so uninspired, but in this set of one-acts, committed actors are let down by juvenile language.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/theater/lets-love-review-coen-plaza.html

 

Ragtime

4 out of 5 stars

Ragtime and Ragtime again.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/ragtime-broadway-revival-review-lincoln-center-doctorow-joshua-henry

"deBessonet’s production has a dignity and seriousness of purpose that carry the day, and Henry is irresistible"

AMNY is positive

Review | In a divided America, ‘Ragtime’ strikes a defiant chord

https://www.amny.com/entertainment/broadway/review-divided-america-ragtime-strikes-defiant-chord/

 

Cockeyed Optimist said: "She will then take on the role of Rose in Gypsy, the role she was BORN to play."

To each their own, but I honestly cannot imagine her as Rose at all. Louise twenty years ago, maybe. (Maaaaybe.) But Rose? She seems all wrong for that.

 

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Can someone change the title back"

You can always change it in the Subject box above where you enter your comment.

All the preview tickets were $39 up until a few hours ago. The table seats for the previews are now listed at $59 (after opening they go up to $125, so still a deal at 59); non-table seats for previews are still $39. 

I believe they're referring to this:

Andrew Durand, Mia Pak and More Lead SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED Workshop

Safety Not Guaranteed will have a run at Signature Theatre March 3 – April 12, 2026.