RAGTIME 2025 Reviews

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 7:47pm

11 PM review drop, per Adam Feldman. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 10:16pm

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/

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 10:51pm

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"

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 10:56pm

MemorableUserName said: "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/

"
 

I’d call that an all-out rave.  High marks for the direction too, which others seem to think is just fine. 

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:00pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:02pm

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."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:04pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:04pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:05pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:05pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:09pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:09pm

Deadline:

‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: Lincoln Center Reclaims A Gem

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

[RW3]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:09pm

JOSHUA HENRY, THAT TONY NOMINATION IS YOURS!

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:10pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:13pm

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."

...

"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"

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:14pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:15pm

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

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:16pm

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

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:17pm

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

See, the difference between me and Robert Hofler is if I compared something to Spielberg's LINCOLN, it would be the highest praise!

A Spielberg RAGTIME movie would be a dream

[Kad]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:24pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "MemorableUserName said: "‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: A Revival Staged as if Directed by Spielberg"

See, the difference between me and Robert Hofler is if I compared something to Spielberg's LINCOLN, it would be the highest praise!

A Spielberg RAGTIME movie would be a dream"

I agree- and Hofler just seems to take it for granted that everybody feels the way he does. It’s a bizarrely mean-spirited review. 

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:24pm

MemorableUserName said: "B from Entertainment Weekly"

That EW review reads more like a B+ or A- grade.

Anyways, it's been a while since we've read glowing reviews like these.

 

Updated On: 10/16/25 at 11:24 PM

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:29pm

It should be very hard for me to keep from shedding a tear when Henry gives his Tony acceptance speech next year. What an extraordinary talent. 

Has anyone heard anything yet on when exactly the company is recording the new cast album? (Next week, perhaps?)

[UWS10023]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:36pm

bwaylyric said: "MemorableUserName said: "B from Entertainment Weekly"

That EW review reads more like a B+ or A- grade.

Anyways, it's been a while since we've read glowing reviews like these.

 

Except for Maybe Happy Ending.

[BJR]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:37pm

Kad said: "I agree- and Hofler just seems to take it for granted that everybody feels the way he does. It’s a bizarrely mean-spirited review."

And not to be ageist, but him opening the review re-litigating who should've directed the 1975 film version - 50 years ago????? I mean, talk about coming in with preconceived notions...!

[DrMonicaDeMoneco]

Posted: 10/16/25 at 11:39pm

RW3 said: "JOSHUA HENRY, THAT TONY NOMINATION IS YOURS!"

Let’s hope he’s remembered by the time the Tony noms are announced