Jonathan Larson News

State Theatre New Jersey presents RENT - 20th Anniversary Tour for three performances on Tuesday, April 2 at 8pm, Wednesday, April 3 at 8pm, and Thursday, April 4 at 8pm. Tickets range from $35-$98.

Celebrate the next generation of artists with 2018 Jonathan Larson Grant winners Emily Kaczmarek and Zoe Sarnak as part of the Larson Legacy Concert series at Adelphi's Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Sunday, March 24.

The Australian Discovery Orchestra, the world's first solely digital streaming orchestra, is proud to announce '16 STORIES' - a worldwide online vocal competition. Three of the writers involved in '16 STORIES,' Nikko Benson, Andre Catrini, Jess Newman, discuss their songs and the project in the videos below. 

Ben Fankhauser (Newsies), Bradley Gibson (The Lion King), Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture) and Zach Adkins (Anastasia) will perform at a March 18 concert celebrating the new album, Joyride, by songwriter Joey Contreras at The Green Room 42. Favorites from his previous albums, Love Me, Love Me Not and Young Kind of Love will be included.

New York Theatre Workshop announced today that the previously announced new project from Anna Deavere Smith will be postponed as NYTW works with Anna to realize her exciting vision for this upcoming piece.

The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall has announced that tickets for the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour are on sale now. The Broadway musical will play April 9 at 7:30 p.m. and April 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the Van Wezel Box Office, by visiting www.VanWezel.org or by calling (941) 953-3368. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling (941) 363-2025.

Letters to the President, the multi-composer song cycle, reimagines letters written to Presidents throughout our United States history. Each song is inspired by an individual letter and written by a different composer or writing team.

Just last night the company of the cult hit Be More Chill, featuring music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, a book by Joe Tracz , direction by Stephen Brackett and choreography by Chase Brock, celebrated opening night on Broadway. 

Playwrights Horizons, in association with Page 73, present the world premiere production of A Strange Loop, with book, music, and lyrics by 2017 Jonathan Larson Award and2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award-winner Michael R. Jackson, directed by Stephen Brackett (Be More Chill, Buyer and Cellar), and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly (Playwrights: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhf**ka; Ugly (Black Queer Zoo), Fairview).

Ha repasado la historia de obras tan emblematicas como WEST SIDE STORY o JESUCRISTO SUPERSTAR.

Rebel Genius, a new musical from Peabody Award-winning songwriter and film composer Matthew Puckett, and based on the life of the young and highly ambitious Albert Einstein, will have its world premiere at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's (UCLA TFT) Little Theater today, March 8, 2019. Rebel Geniuscrashes physics and love into one another as Albert falls madly in love with Mileva Maric and then risks everything he has to find a perfect Unified Theory of the Universe. Book, music and lyrics by Matthew Puckett; directed by Ovation Award winner Brian Kite; choreographed by Ovation Award winner Dana Solimando; musical direction by Dan Belzer and Jeremy Mann.

New York composer/lyricist Brian Sweeney and writer Tiffany Smalls' 'Day and Age' - a modern, millenial anthem - is set to premiere at the Cultural Arts Playhouse Friday, March 15

MAX VERNON - the songwriter described by The New Yorker as "equal parts Bohemia and Broadway" - will continue his first residency at Joe's Pub, Existential Life Crisis Lullaby, on Tuesday, March 19 at 7:00 PM. Following three sold out shows last year, he returns with special guests Lauren Worsham, Margo Seibert, Larry Owens, Maria-Christina Oliveras, and Darius Harper. The spring shows, directed by Ellie Heyman, will continue on Tuesday, April 23. Vernon received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, three Drama Desk Award nominations, a Jonathan Larson Grant and the Richard Rodgers Award for his musicals The View UpStairs and KPOP, both of which had critically-acclaimed extended Off-Broadway runs last year. KPOP is planning a major new production later this year. Following a sold-out debut at the Kennedy Center in 2017, Vernon has returned to the New York nightclub stage for an exclusive engagement of high spectacle, high fashion, and high belted F sharps.

In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway… and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson's RENT continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th anniversary touring production.

RENT is playing at THE BIZ ARTS from August 15 to 18, 2019.

The American Theatre Wing has announced recipients of the prestigious 2019 Jonathan Larson '82 Grants: Julia Gytri & Avi Amon (book, music and lyrics), Emily Gardner Xu Hall (book, music and lyrics), Andy Roninson (music and lyrics) and Ben Wexler (music and lyrics) All will receive grants of $10,000, as well as additional support in the form of residences, concerts and recording grants, valued at over $50,000.

Jonathan Larson's Tony Award-winning groundbreaking musical, RENT, rocks stages across America in its 20th Anniversary touring production. It is currently playing at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska. Forget regret. This is a show you must see.

Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce tickets for the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour will go on sale on Wednesday, March 6. The RENT 20th Anniversary Tour will play Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre for a limited engagement May 10-19, 2019.

Mischer Neurosciences at the Hobby Center announces that the individual tickets for the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour will go sale at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 1; the Broadway musical will play August 6-11, 2019 at the Hobby Center.

The Boch Center announced today that THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL, the critically acclaimed 2018 Best Musical winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards; RENT 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR, back in Boston by popular demand; the holiday tradition RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL; the beloved holiday classic IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS; RIVERDANCE NEW 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW; and the Tony Award-winning smash-hit musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET will anchor its upcoming 2019-2020 Broadway and family show lineup at the Wang and Shubert Theatres. Tickets for these shows go on sale to the general public on Sunday, March 3 at 10:00AM.