Jonathan Larson News

RENT is the transformational rock opera by Jonathan Larson that played to critical acclaim on Broadway for 12 years.

This year's Tony host, Neil Patrick Harris recently chatted with Gold Derby's Chris Beachum about his double Emmy win last year. Click below to check out what he had to say!

'Hairspray' opens at Chattanooga Theatre Centre on July 1st and runs through the 24th, 2011. The Broadway musical is written by Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman. This musical is based on the 1988 film of the same name by John Waters and is based on Water's experiences growing up in Baltimore.

A una semana del estreno del musical de Jonathan Larson 'tick, tick...BOOM!' en el hall del Teatro Lara de Madrid, los tres actores protagonistas y su director, Pablo Muñoz-Chápuli, han hablado con BroadwayWorld Spain acerca de los ensayos y de esta obra autobiográfica del creador de Rent.

Samuel Joseph presents AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH SONGWRITER JOHN BUCCHINO featuring the renowned composer and lyricist of stage and screen performing some of his most celebrated works joined by some very special guests at London's premier intimate concert venue THE PHEASANTRY, August 22 and 23 only.

Los Angeles Cabaret venue Show at Barre/BARRE vt and Very Intense Productions will present RSO: Barre Bones, an evening of songs by Ryan Scott Oliver, on July 6, at 7:30pm and 9:30pm.

The American Theatre Wing (Theodore S. Chapin, Chairman, Board of Trustees; Heather Hitchens, Executive Director) has announced that its annual Gala will be held on Monday, September 26 at 6:30 PM at The Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue at Central Park South) and will honor Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Sony Corporation and longtime American Theatre Wing Board Member.

Upcoming MTI Shows - 7/03 for Seoul

La producción de Tela-Katola de Tick, Tick,...¡Boom! tiene nuevas fechas en Madrid. Del 14 al 17 y del 21 al 24 de Julio, a las 22.30h, en el Hall del Teatro Lara, se presentará este musical de Jonathan Larson, protagonizado por David Tortosa, Jorge Gonzalo y Laura Castrillón.

The fact that Jonathan Larson won two posthumous Tony Award for writing and composing Rent is certainly bittersweet, but the fact that for one of those awards he bested the also posthumously nominated Rodgers and Hammerstein is just plain weird. But the last-minute addition of Rent to the 1995-96 Broadway season seemed to be the catalyst for one the oddest Tony nights ever.

Kathy Evans, Founder and Executive Director of the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, announced the fourteen musical theatre writers who will participate for the inaugural summer in July and August. The Rhinebeck Writers Retreat provides a one-week residency for a musical theatre writing team to create and refine their musical in Rhinebeck, New York.

Tony-nominee and Obie and Theatre World Award winner Adam Pascal, has created some of the most memorable roles in recent Broadway history.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is happy to announce that songwriters Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond, who won the 2010 Jonathan Larson Grant, will be presenting 'Out Of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman & Dimond' on Monday, July 18 at 7pm.

2010 Jonathan Larson Grant Winners Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond release their new album OUT OF OUR HEADS: The Music of Kooman and Dimond on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and Napster today, June 28, 2011. The album features Tony Award nominees Kerry Butler (Catch Me If You Can, Rock of Ages, Xanadu, Little Shop of Horrors), Christopher Sieber (La Cage aux Folles, Shrek, Spamalot) and Patina Miller (Sister Act), as well as Broadway performers Heidi Blickenstaff (The Addams Family, [title of show], The Little Mermaid), Anderson Davis (Les Miserables), Matt Doyle (War Horse, Bye Bye Birdie, Spring Awakening), Chris Mann (Glee), Kyle Dean Massey (Next To Normal, Xanadu, Wicked), Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening), and Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture).

¿Quieres ver una muestra del concierto de anoche en el Teatro Coliseum de Madrid? Aquí tienes la canción que da título al musical, interpretada por la compañía al completo... ¡Rent! Once años después de su estreno en la misma sala, el público revivió por un solo día este musical del desaparecido Jonathan Larson en un evento solidario cuyos fondos serán destinados a Apoyo Positivo.

Anoche Rent por fín volvió al Teatro Coliseum Arteria de Madrid en una producción de BIMON Pro. Once años después de su estreno en la misma sala, el público revivió por un solo día este musical del desaparecido Jonathan Larson en un evento solidario cuyos fondos serán destinados a Apoyo Positivo y apadrinado por Asier Etxeandía.

Estos días se dan cita en nuestra ciudad el concierto de Rent El Musical en el Teatro Coliseum de Madrid y el estreno de Tick Tick...Boom! y por este motivo la directora Silvia Sanfeliu nos obsequia con este homenaje a Jonathan Larson, el desaparecido autor de ambos musicales.