{"id":262730,"date":"2026-06-11T02:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262730\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:19:23","slug":"ragtime-will-close-in-august-cast-changes-announced-for-final-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262730\/","title":{"rendered":"Ragtime Will Close in August; Cast Changes Announced for Final Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coalhousey\"<\/a>Shaina Taub, Joshua Henry, and Ben Levi Ross in the Broadway revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theater
(\u00a9 Matthew Murphy)<\/p>\n

Lincoln Center Theater\u2019s Tony-winning Broadway revival of Ragtime<\/a> will play its final performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Sunday, August 16. The show was selling tickets through August 2.<\/p>\n

Prior to closing, the production will undergo a series of cast changes:<\/p>\n

Ben Levi Ross will play his final performance as Mother\u2019s Younger Brother on July 12. Jake Pedersen will play the role July 14-26, with Nicholas Barr\u00f3n in the role July 28-August 16.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Shaina Taub\u2019s final performance as Emma Goldman is August 2, with Julie Benko returning to the role August 4-16.<\/p>\n

Anna Grace Barlow\u2019s final performance as Evelyn Nesbit is June 14. Morgan Marcell (June 16-July 16) and Marina Kondo (July 17-August 16) close the show.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

Ragtime is the first production under Lincoln Center Theater\u2019s new artistic leadership, led by Lear deBessonet<\/a>. 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\u00a0Terrence McNally<\/a>\u00a0and score by\u00a0Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty<\/a>, inspired by the novel by\u00a0E.L. Doctorow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Broadway production has choreography by Ellenore Scott, sets by David Korins, costumes by Linda Cho, lighting by Adam Honor\u00e9, sound by Kai Harada, projections by 59 Productions, and hair and wigs by Tom Watson.<\/p>\n

Of deBessonet\u2019s Broadway revival, TheaterMania\u2019s Zachary Stewart wrote in his review<\/a>, \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaina Taub, Joshua Henry, and Ben Levi Ross in the Broadway revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-262730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}