Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cast of Rent performing on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' in November 1996 Tim Weil, the original music director of Rent, ...

Jonathan Larson, the cheerily boyish composer of “Rent,” died in 1993 at the age of 35 and thus “The Jonathan Larson Project,” the new Off-Broadway collection of his unheard songs, is a bit like ...

NEW YORK — Jonathan Larson, the cheerily boyish composer of the musical “Rent,” died in 1996 at the age of 35. “The Jonathan Larson Project,” the new off-Broadway collection of his unheard songs, is a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring more than 20 songs that have never been part of a fully staged production – including material cut from Rent and tick, tick… BOOM! – ...

Martin originated the role of Tom Collins in Rent, which became a critically acclaimed Broadway hit after Larson's tragic death There's one song from Rent that is both physically and emotionally hard ...

At the Orpheum Theater in Manhattan’s East Village, playwright Jonathan Larson is having a third act. “I was so obsessed with RENT around the time of my bat mitzvah,” said Tepper, speaking on Zoom ...

As a member of Rent‘s original Broadway cast, Anthony Rapp got to witness Jonathan Larson‘s genius firsthand. “He was so prolific,” Rapp, 53, told Us Weekly exclusively on Monday, March 10, while ...

The best number is near the end of the night, "Love Heals," which was written for Love Heals: The Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education in 1992. The insert suggests that Larson's next show would ...

Jonathan Larson at rehearsal in December 1995, upstairs in the annex at New York Theater Workshop. That’s his libretto in the looseleaf binder. Photo: Anthony Rapp Jonathan Larson at rehearsal in ...

Rent's opening scene almost looked — and sounded — completely different. Tim Weil, the original music director of Rent, tells PEOPLE there was one song Jonathan Larson really wanted to open the show, ...