Rent - 1996 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 14

Los Angeles is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Coming up in April, we've got a Tony Award winning greek epic musical tragedy, a smash Broadway musical comedy, a deeply rich dramatic work from and starring Los Angeles favorite Holland Taylor, and more. 

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation is presenting its latest online exhibition, “The Hirschfeld Time Machine: The 90s,” now live through June 15.

Before Rent, there was Tick, Tick... BOOM! Presented by The Ritz Theatre Company as part of the organization's 'Grand Reopening' season, this autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning creator of Rent, is the story of a composer and the sacrifices he makes on the road to the proverbial big break. Helmed by Ritz Associate Artistic Director Matthew Weil, the show runs at The Ritz from March 18th through April 3rd.

The American Theatre Guild presents the Colorado Springs engagement of RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour at the Pikes Peak Center. This production is part of the BROADWAY IS BACK AT THE PIKES PEAK CENTER SERIES and will take the stage April 5, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

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Tommy Kaiser, college winner of Next on Stage season two and current swing/Mark and Roger understudy, is taking over our Instagram story today, March 6! Don't miss his behind the scenes look at the tour's two show day in Philadelphia.

Westport Country Playhouse presents Next to Normal this April. The 2009 Tony Award®-winning pop/rock musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama lifts the veil on family loss and the individual responses to crisis and endurance, while pushing the boundaries of contemporary musical theater.

The American Theatre Guild will present the Lubbock engagement of the highly anticipated RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour.

Emmy Award winning screen writer and director Todd Robinson is known for his work on White Squall, Lonely Hearts, The Last Full Measure and more. But a little known fact about Robinson is that he was the college roommate and best friend of Jonathan Larson.

Loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera, La bohème, Rent follows a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

Dallas Summer Musicals and Broadway Across America announced that a digital lottery will be held for the RENT 25TH Anniversary Farewell Tour, returning to Dallas’ Music Hall at Fair Park from February 18-20, 2022 as part of the Germania Insurance Broadway Series presented by DSM.

DPAC has announced that beginning tomorrow, Thursday, January 27th at 9:00 AM, a digital rush lottery will take place for RENT.  RENT is on stage January 28 – 30 for 5 great shows, as part of WRAL's Greatest Hits of Broadway. 

Today's top stories include a Broadway run for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella, which is set for this Fall! No dates have been confirmed at this time. Plus, casting has been announced for the North American tour of Moulin Rouge!, get a first look at Emilie Kouatchou as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera, and more!

Members of the original RENT family celebrate the life and career of Jonathan Larson, who tragically passed away on this day in 1996.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus will present the return of the RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour, back by popular demand, in the Kimmel Cultural Campus' Merriam Theater on March 4 - 6, 2022.

Ring in the New Year with the RENT 25TH ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL TOUR when it comes to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) for five performances only, January 14 – 16, 2022. The Providence engagement of RENT is part of the Encore Series.

RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour tickets are on sale now; the Broadway musical will play January 12th and January 13th. Tickets are available at the State Theatre Center for the Arts box office (453 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 18042).

Following tick, tick...BOOM! Lin-Manuel Miranda is launching a new TeeRico collection of Moondance Diner wear for which proceeds will go to the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) in honor of Jonathan Larson.

Discover the history of Broadway, from its earliest theatres and Golden Age musicals to modern hits like Wicked and Hamilton, with a timeline of key events.

Jonathan Larson's small off-Broadway show about love and fear during the AIDS pandemic and has had a phenomenal life- Tony and Pulitzer Awards, running on Broadway for twelve years and seen worldwide in successive tours. Loosely based on Pucinni's La Bohème, the play touches a strong cord among young adults and artists in its portrayal of the incredible fear of death, the joys of new love and the loss of creative spaces. We here in San Francisco can surely empathize with Rent's messages. This spectacular touring cast was embraced heartily by a very youthful audience, who, while not born during the AID crisis, still experience its long-lasting ramifications.

Watch as Richard Ridge chats with Broadway favorite Jose Llana, who will soon join Seth Rudetsky for Seth's Concert Series, airing Sunday, December 5 at 8pm ET.

Jose Llana is the next guest on The Seth Concert Series with Seth Rudetsky! Watch him perform 'Being Alive' from Company in rehearsal for this weekend's concert.

Tonight, NBC will air its sixth live musical production. Following in the footsteps of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar, the peacock network will be presenting Annie. Based on Harold Gray's comic strip titled Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a little orphan with equal measures of pluck and positivity who charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in New York City in the year 1933.

Students and performers from performing arts public high schools in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, and one youth theater in New York, concepted and produced their own unique rendition of the iconic musical ballad, “Louder than Words,” from tick, tick,..BOOM!, a biographical retelling of Larson’s life.

One of the songs from the project, 'Pura Vida', particularly caught my attention. It is about environmental preservation and nature. Pura Vida literally means 'pure life', but in Costa Rica it's like a motto; it's an expression used in almost every conversation. It means that everything is fine, but it can also mean thank you. When I first listened to the song I wondered if Jonathan Larson had ever been to Costa Rica. How did he come up with the phrase?