Jonathan Larson News

Composer, musician and artist and Jonathan Larson Grant winner Veronica Mansour will perform original music at Adelphi University's Performing Arts Center. Learn more!

Capital Arts Theater Guild will present its inaugural installment of their new national musical development program, the National Music Theater Foundry. Taking place on January 24 & 25, 2025, at the Theatre Raleigh Arts Center's TR STUDIO.

Philadelphia Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Night Side Songs, a new musical from acclaimed musical theatre duo Daniel and Patrick Lazour and directed by PTC Co-Artistic Director and Obie-winner Taibi Magar.

RENT in Concert, directed by Broadway’s Sammi Cannold and conducted by Sarah Hicks, is a full symphonic concert evening performed with live vocalists and Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra.

Wagner College Theatre has announced that Nina Kissinger is the winner of the 2025 Stanley Drama Award for her dark comedy, THIS IS GOVERNMENT. The play follows three interns trapped in a lockdown as they navigate the chaos of political disarray-and confront the question of what power, if any, they truly possess.

The Great Gatsby's Dan Rosales is taking over our Instagram today! Follow along on our Instagram Story to see a behind-the-scenes look at the hit Broadway musical. 

54 BELOW will present The Kilbanes in New Writers at 54! The Kilbanes on Tuesday, January 21st at 9:30pm. Joining The Kilbanes onstage will be Trent Saunders (Dead Outlaw, Hadestown), and Jo Lampert (Joan of Arc: Into the Fire). 

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 10, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Casting has been set for the world premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical that celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals, and pop songs found in files and boxes when the visionary writer of RENT died.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat's popular series, “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens,” continues its fifth anniversary season and kicks off a brand-new year with “Book, Music, and Lyrics,” featuring Emmy Award and Drama Desk nominee Mark Sonnenblick.

The City of Aventura will present the original stars of RENT, Tony Award nominee, Adam Pascal, & Anthony Rapp, as part of the 2025 Aventura Broadway Concert Series on Sunday, January 19 at 7 p.m. at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. 

Check out throwback video from a 1997 production of Jonathan Larson's RENT at La Jolla Playhouse, led by future Tony Award-winner Neil Patrick Harris.

The Great Gatsby ensemble member and understudy Ryah Nixon discusses the reality of doing a Broadway show every day in the video here! 

Con il musical Rent è molto difficile sbagliare tanta è l’emozione che riesce a suscitare ad ogni sua rappresentazione. Rent ha marcato un’epoca, opera quasi unica del compianto Jonathan Larson che perse la vita per un rottura d’aneurisma il giorno della prima generale del suo capolavoro che gli valse due Tony Awards postumi. Il suo universo, stroncato in modo così repentino ha comunque stabilito un punto di rottura tra il musical tradizionale e il musical del “dopo Rent”.

Chance Theater has announced the highly anticipated production of Tick, Tick... Boom!, directed by H. Adam Harris (Boat Show). Running on Cripe Stage from February 1, 2025, through February 23, 2025, with previews beginning January 24, 2025.

Tired of the same old tried and true holiday songs? Check out a few underrated faves from Anastasia, Elf the Musical, Rent and more!

Let's toast the New Year by looking ahead to some of the most anticipated shows of the next 6 months. We put together 14 shows we're looking forward to seeing next year, that are likely to sell out well in advance.

If you love American musicals, you know Jonathan Larson, you know Rent, and chances are, you’ve been eagerly waiting for this show to hit the stage—months, maybe even years.

Sarah Hyland will return to Broadway as Daisy Buchanan in the musical The Great Gatsby. Learn more about the cast and see how to purchase tickets to the production!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 18, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.