Ragtime Will Tour Beginning in 2027

Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of Ragtime will go on tour beginning in the fall of 2027, launching at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre.

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.

Like the Broadway production, the tour will have choreography by 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.