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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! – ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Off Broadway world premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals and pop songs found in files and boxes of ...

The long-running Lyrics and Lyricists series at The 92nd Street Y, New York began decades ago, celebrating and exploring the works of the writers of the classic Golden Age Broadway writers. It still ...

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 ...

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, ...