Thirty is usually the first birthday that any of us dreads. Twenty-nine year-old Jonathan Larson did as well in 1990 – especially because he’d been trying to get a foothold on Broadway for years and he seemed to be getting nowhere. “I’m older ...
RENT: SCHOOL EDITION book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.
The Story
RENT: SCHOOL EDITION is the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical loosely based on Puccini's LA BOHEME. As described on the MTI show page, "it follows a year in the lives of ...
This is the third in our Non-Profit Spotlight Series. The first, on Lincoln Center Theater, can be found here, and the second, on Playwrights Horizons, can be found here.
Three non-profit theatres have been responsible for a number of innovative ...
The path to becoming a Broadway composer, lyricist, or bookwriter isn't well-defined or easy; it takes a tremendous amount of talent, hard work, and luck. For RENT author Jonathan Larson, who wrote all three components of his musicals himself, ...
Before RENT became a cultural phenomenon when it opened on Broadway in 1996, Jonathan Larson was hard at work on another musical: SUPERBIA. A rock adaptation of 1984, George Orwell's dystopian vision of the future (even though Larson was denied the ...
It's the end of an era. RENT, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical by Jonathan Larson, has been closed on Broadway for over a year, and the tour - starring original cast members Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal - has come to an end. ...
Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nevada Honored for Pursuing Artistic Vision Despite Challenges
When Green Valley High School decided to stage a production of the Jonathan Larson Tony and Pulitzer Award winning musical RENT, the community ...
It's a fact of life that educators and parents don't always see eye-to-eye, but involving the law isn't exactly standard procedure.
That, however, is exactly what happened in Henderson, Nevada, when a Green Valley High School theatre class decided ...
Anita Gates' article in The New York Times gives great insight on this lesser known Jonathan Larson work currently playing as the Westport Country Playhouse.
For more information on the Westport Country Playhouse production (as well as a resourceful ...
Winner of nearly every major industry award, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, RENT continues to be a cornerstone of modern American musical theatre.
RENT first opened at the off-Broadway, New York ...
