#1
Posted: 10/16/25 at 7:47pm
11 PM review drop, per Adam Feldman.
“I am furious, but I am sailing.”
#2
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/
#3
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"
#4
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.
#5
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
#6
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."
#7
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
#8
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
#9
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
#10
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
#11
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
#12
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
#14
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
#15
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"
#16
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
#17
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
#18
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
#19
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
#20
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.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#21
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
#22
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?)
“I am furious, but I am sailing.”
#23
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.
#24
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...!
#25
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
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