Broadway’s newly minted Tony-winning revival of Ragtime has unveiled a “final” extension. The Lincoln Center Theater production will now play its final performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater August 16.
The production was crowned the season’s Best Revival of a Musical at the 2026 Tony Awards June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. The win was one of four total Tonys the production picked up, also nabbing wins for Leading Actor and Actress in a Musical (Joshua Henry and Caissie Levy) and Sound Design (Kai Harada). Those four total wins tied it with The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! as the most Tony-winning musicals of the season.
The production opened October 16, 2025. See what critics had to say about the Broadway bow here.
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Some casting changes will accompany these newly added performances. Ben Levi Ross will play his final performance as Mother’s Younger Brother July 12, and will be succeeded by Jake Pedersen (Parade) July 14-26, and by Nicholas Barrón July 28-August 16.
Playing their final performances June 14 will be Colin Donnell as Father, Anna Grace Barlow as Evelyn Nesbit, and Nick Barrington as The Little Boy. Ben Davis will play Father June 16-July 19 and August 4-16, and Matthew Scott will take over the role July 21-August 2. Barlow will be succeeded by Morgan Marcell June 16-July 16, with Marina Kondo playing the role July 17-August 16. Understudy Jackson Parker Gill will assume the role of The Little Boy full-time beginning June 16, with Greyson Chapman joining as the role’s new understudy.
Shaina Taub and Ellie May Sennett will play their final performances as, respectively, Emma Goldman and The Little Girl August 2. Julie Benko will return to again succeed Taub August 4-16, and Tabitha Lawing will return to again play The Little Girl alongside current understudy Aerina DeBoer August 4-16.
Based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime blends fact and fiction telling the story of New York City at the dawn of the 20th century, with a book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. The story focuses on Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a Black man who buys a Model T Ford and sets off a chain of events that encompass all levels of New York City society, along with magician Harry Houdini, industrialist Henry Ford, celebrity party girl Evelyn Nesbit, civil rights leader Booker T. Washington, architect Stanford White, anarchist Emma Goldman, a Jewish Latvian immigrant who becomes a movie director, and an upper class white family living in suburban New Rochelle.
Henry, Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz lead the cast as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Mother, and Tateh, respectively, with Donnell (Anything Goes) as Father, Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz) as Sarah, Ross (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mother’s Younger Brother, Taub as Emma Goldman, John Clay III (New York, New York) as Booker T. Washington, and Rodd Cyrus (The Light in the Piazza) as Harry Houdini. All are reprising their performances from the production’s New York City Center run.
The Broadway cast also features Barlow as Evelyn Nesbit, Barrington as The Little Boy, and Sennett as The Little Girl. They are currently joined by Barrón, Lauren Blackman, Allison Blackwell, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Jordan Chin, Eean Sherrod Cochran, Billy Cohen, Kerry Conte, Rheaume Crenshaw, Ellie Fishman, Jason Forbach, Nick Gaswirth, Ta’Nika Gibson, Gill, David Jennings,ma Kondo, Marcell, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Jenny Mollet, Tom Nelis, Kent Overshown, Kayla Pecchioni, Pedersen, John Rapson, Scott, Deandre Sevon, Keenan D. Washington, Jacob Keith Watson, Alan Wiggins, and Keenan Williams. Casting is by The Telsey Office‘s Craig Burns.
The production also features choreography by Ellenore Scott, set design by David Korins, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Adam Honoré and Donald Holder, sound design by Kai Harada, projection design by 59 Studio, and hair and wig design by Tom Watson. Music director James Moore is conducting a 28-piece orchestra playing the original orchestrations by William David Brohn, and vocal arrangements by Flaherty. Ann James is sensitivity specialist, and Tim Semon serves as production stage manager.
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The musical premiered on Broadway in 1998 following a pre-Broadway bow in Toronto, with an original cast that boasted Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, and Marin Mazzie. McDonald won the second of her six career Tony Awards for her featured performance as Sarah. Even in a year otherwise dominated by juggernaut The Lion King, Ragtime managed to also win Tonys for McNally’s book and Flaherty and Ahrens’ score, along with Brohn’s orchestrations.