Rent News

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I must admit that I am one of the cold-hearted few who did not rave about the original Broadway production of Rent and was disappointed by the touring company.

With dimmed lights, round tables scattered across the room and a snazzy stage arranged in one corner, The Villages High School cafeteria was transformed from its usual school lunchroom setting Friday night, as students of the VHS music department came together for the third annual Buffalo Beat Cafe: A Fall Coffee House 2009.

Omaha will be living "La Vie Boheme" as SNAP! Productions brings the Broadway smash hit "RENT!" to Omaha for the first time in an off-Broadway production at the Shelterbelt Theater.

Todd Brooks had been watching online for months, waiting for the release of amateur rights to the musical "Rent." He surprised even himself when he snagged them in February, making tiny SNAP Productions the metro area's first theater to stage Jonathan Larson's rock musical.

Fans of movies and musicals like "The Holiday," "Rent," and "Monsters, Inc." can see their soundtracks come to life through the dancing of Vol ballet club this weekend.

The Butte College Performing Arts cast, crew and band "owned" "Rent," Jonathan Larson's Tony Award winning Broadway musical, from the moment the "lights went down and the curtain went up" in the college's new black box theater on opening night, Nov.

EASTBOURNE Operatic and Dramatic Society will be performing rock music Rent at the Devonshire Park Theatre from November 17-21. Written by the composer and playwright, Jonathon Larson, and based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent tells the story of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, ...

Call it a reunion, but don't call it a comeback. Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal are back in their original roles in 'Rent.' The two lead characters say they couldn't come back without one another.

"Rent," one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time, will be showing at Aurora's Paramount Theatre this weekend.

Readers may remember back in 2007 when I wrote about Jeri Palmer, a lifelong Joliet resident.

"Rent," touring in a short engagement at the Aronoff Center through Sunday, has what too many Broadway touring shows lack: real charisma.

The day that amateur production rights became available for the musical "Rent," Truckee Meadows Community College theater instructor Paul Aberasturi got up three hours early so he'd be the first in Reno to request them.

Arriving at an amateur production knowing its musical director is a professional of some standing - especially having led the band of said show in the West End - therea s a certain level of expectation before a single note has been played or sung.

"You love it! Now mock it!" That's the tagline for the 10th "Forbidden NYU" production.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a tour of Rent featuring the stars of the original off-Broadway and Broadway productions, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp.

Lately, I've been trying to get in as many outdoor walks as I can before winter comes.

When Jonathan Larson's musical 'Rent' debuted on Broadway in 1996, it instantly captivated audiences and went on to receive the Tony Award for best musical, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, among other honors.

How does this experience compare with previous experiences you've had on stage? This experience has been undescribable.

Carousel Dinner Theatre's production of 'Rent' is close to perfect, its cast and crew serving up a performance as brightly polished and sophisticated as any Broadway production.