Broadway’s elite turned out on Thursday for the opening night of Lincoln Center Theater’s “Ragtime” revival, a production that artistic director Lear deBessonet thinks will resonate with audiences today even more powerfully than when it first premiered over 25 years ago.
“It is so profound to watch an audience connect with this material,” deBessonet told Variety on the red carpet at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. “It holds all of the beauty of the dreams of this country, and it also holds our wounds. It holds the things that we’re still working through to be a more perfect union — and I think all of that is felt very poignantly
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