Christmas lights, industrial structures and the faint noise of a soprano opera voice set the exposition for the opening night of “Rent”— the ... hit the stage in 1996. The book, musical ...

Rent, Larson’s first project following Boom!, started as a staged reading in 1993 at the New York Theatre Workshop. Larson died Jan. 25, 1996, of an aortic dissection; that night’s opening ...

Cast members on Broadway opening night: Gwen Stewart ... Christina Cabot meditating as they waited to audition for “Rent” in 1996.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times I’d not thought ...

Watching Rent and knowing that scores of friends ... Young was a stunning Joanne on opening night (stepping in for Jasmine Easler), particularly in her duets with LaMark and Kornfeld ("The ...

Set in the East Village of New York City, “Rent” is about ... its official 1996 opening. Tragically, the show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly, the night before the Off-Broadway ...