‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: Lincoln Center Reclaims A Gem

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

The story of churning human collision in and around 1906 New York City, “Ragtime” swept onto Broadway in 1998 fully convinced of its own importance. As Michelle Obama would say years later of “Hamilton,” another show that reminded us immigrants get the job done, “Ragtime” believed itself to be the story of America. Everyone involved had things to prove. The Canadian producer, Garth Drabinsky, was an outsider willing to drop all kinds of funny mo…

America in Major and Minor Keys: Ragtime Returns

The dreamy story of a nation facing a new century comes to Lincoln Center, directed by Lear deBessonet and starring Joshua Henry.

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

The new revival of the 1998 Broadway musical “Ragtime” gives us a good idea of what the 1981 film adaptation of E. L. Doctorow’s critically acclaimed 1975 bestseller would have been like if Steven Spielberg had directed it — and not Milos Forman. At the time, many critics felt and wrote that the movie version of “Ragtime” should have been assigned to Robert Altman. Doctorow’s profile of a racially diverse America and its newest immigrants is not…

‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: Lincoln Center Reclaims A Gem

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 on Broadway in a bloated 1998 production. Here, as she did with the recent Encores! production, she gives the musical a second chance to realize […]

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

Lear deBessonet's Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater is a timely, glorious panorama of changing times in America.

For Caissie Levy, Ragtime Feels More Relevant Than Ever

Bustle/GettyThe Broadway revival of Ragtime, which opens Thursday night at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, paints a picture of an early-20th century America grappling with immense change — and in the year since this production debuted at the New York City Center, it’s more pertinent than ever. “That’s been a pretty crazy discovery,” says Caissie Levy, 44. “Just to sit in this moment in time in American history and in world history and …