Ragtime Will Close in August; Cast Changes Announced for Final Weeks

Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony-winning Broadway revival of Ragtime will play its final performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Sunday, August 16. The show was selling tickets through August 2.

Prior to closing, the production will undergo a series of cast changes:

Ben Levi Ross will play his final performance as Mother’s Younger Brother on July 12. Jake Pedersen will play the role July 14-26, with Nicholas Barrón in the role July 28-August 16.

Colin Donnell will play his last performance as Father on June 14. Ben Davis will play the role June 16-July 19 and August 4-16, with Matthew Scott as Father July 21-August 2.

Shaina Taub’s final performance as Emma Goldman is August 2, with Julie Benko returning to the role August 4-16.

Anna Grace Barlow’s final performance as Evelyn Nesbit is June 14. Morgan Marcell (June 16-July 16) and Marina Kondo (July 17-August 16) close the show.

Nick Barrington (Little Boy) departs on June 14, with Jackson Parker GIll assuming the role on June 16. Greyson Chapman will join as understudy.

Ellie May Sennett (Little Girl) departs on August 2. Tabitha Lawing returns to the role and will split it with Aerina DeBoer August 4-16.

Ragtime is the first production under Lincoln Center Theater’s new artistic leadership, led by Lear deBessonet. DeBessonet stages the musical, as she did a concert mounting at New York City Center in the fall 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.

The Broadway production has choreography by Ellenore Scott, sets by David Korins, costumes by Linda Cho, lighting by Adam Honoré, sound by Kai Harada, projections by 59 Productions, and hair and wigs by Tom Watson.

Of deBessonet’s Broadway revival, TheaterMania’s Zachary Stewart wrote in his review, “This is a revival in the truest sense, returning to the stage one of the greatest musicals ever written, but also offering the unmistakable thrill of encountering a Broadway show in peak condition.”

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.