If you are a regular theatergoer, you probably have a story about "Rent." The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning show changed Broadway forever when it opened in 1996. Part of the reason the rock musical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weil, 67, worked closely with Larson, who wrote the book, script and lyrics for the 1996 Broadway show. However, Larson died on ...

At the Orpheum Theater in Manhattan’s East Village, playwright Jonathan Larson is having a third act. “I was so obsessed with RENT around the time of my bat mitzvah,” said Tepper, speaking on Zoom ...

Rent's opening scene almost looked — and sounded — completely different. Tim Weil, the original music director of Rent, tells PEOPLE there was one song Jonathan Larson really wanted to open the show, ...

As a member of Rent‘s original Broadway cast, Anthony Rapp got to witness Jonathan Larson‘s genius firsthand. “He was so prolific,” Rapp, 53, told Us Weekly exclusively on Monday, March 10, while ...

Jonathan Larson at rehearsal in December 1995, upstairs in the annex at New York Theater Workshop. That’s his libretto in the looseleaf binder. Photo: Anthony Rapp Jonathan Larson at rehearsal in ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring more than 20 songs that have never been part of a fully staged production – including material cut from Rent and tick, tick… BOOM! – ...

“The Jonathan Larson Project,” a years-in-the-making musical collage of Larson’s life, features songs he wrote before he died. Now it’s onstage at the Orpheum. By Rachel Sherman The actor, who starred ...

Jonathan Larson, the cheerily boyish composer of “Rent,” died in 1993 at the age of 35 and thus “The Jonathan Larson Project,” the new Off-Broadway collection of his unheard songs, is a bit like ...

Shortly before the curtains were pulled open on the Short North Stage's production of RENT on Oct. 15, a member in the Garden Theater audience confessed to her friend this was her ninth time seeing ...

Tim Weil, the original music director of Rent, believes Jonathan Larson "certainly" would have made a few changes to the acclaimed rock musical had he seen it in previews. Weil, 67, worked closely ...

Billy Porter, Wayne Brady, Sting and Suzan-Lori Parks are all slated to star on Off Broadway stages this month. By Laura Collins-Hughes “The Jonathan Larson Project,” a years-in-the-making musical ...