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Rent (Musical)

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Say Goodbye to Life Cafe, Manganaro

    Life Cafe, the Alphabet City hangout that inspired Jonathan Larson's musical "Rent," is set to close. [NY Daily News] Veronica People's Club, "a weird, wonderful little bar with some of the best and most unassuming cocktails in Greenpoint" is shutting down. [Flavorpill]

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Life Café (Birthplace of Rent) Shutters

    Life CafeLife Café, now lifeless ​A bit of sad news for East Village residents. Yesterday evening, Kathy Kirkpatrick shuttered her longstanding Life Café "until further notice." According to a note posted on her website, building repairs that were supposed to be completed a year ago need to ... More >>

  • Theater

    August 17, 2011

    Rent Gets a New Lease on Life

    Revived Off-Broadway, Jonathan Larson's famous musical gives reason for some tears, and some cheers

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Rent Is Back: My Review

    ​Remember when shows used to move to a larger theater? Well, they still do that, but then after they shut down, they move back to a smaller theater. This provides some kind of economic closure, I guess. So the award winning Jonathan Larson musical Rent is now at New World Stages.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Michael Greif, Director, and Angela Wendt, Costume Designer, Revisit Rent

    Joan Marcus​Since 1996, the musical Rent has entered the musical theater pantheon, won a Pulitzer, and been praised, parodied, and panned (when it made its way to the screen). Now, three years after the show closed its Broadway run after 12 years in 2008, a revival is in previews at New World ... More >>

  • Theater

    May 18, 2011

    The 56th Annual OBIE's Nicely Elaborate Entrance

    Joan Marcus​Since 1996, the musical Rent has entered the musical theater pantheon, won a Pulitzer, and been praised, parodied, and panned (when it made its way to the screen). Now, three years after the show closed its Broadway run after 12 years in 2008, a revival is in previews at New World ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2011

    WHAT A TRIP

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas turns 40

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Drag Takes Over Broadway!

    ​The Great White Way has become the the Great White Gay, with heels on! Next month, the great Harvey Fierstein will take over the role of Albin in La Cage aux Folles (the show he wrote the book for), and Wilson Jermaine Heredia, who once donned drag for Rent, will play the cross-dressing maid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    2010 Pulitzer Prizes: The Breakdown!

    ​It's that magical time of year again when the uppity nerds of Columbia University bestow upon the people their picks for this year's Best Writing Stuff. And we're going to attempt to add some context to these proceedings as they happen. So, here, we're live-blogging the Pulitzer Prizes. Unfor ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 16, 2010

    WASTED YOUTH

    Green Day does showtunes

  • Music

    November 17, 2009

    West Africa Story: Fela! on Broadway

    A fantastic new musical will soon find out just how fantastic it has to be to survive

  • Voice Choices

    January 28, 2009

    Rent

    National Tour hits Newark

  • Voice Choices

    October 1, 2008

    GROOVE TO THIS

    Taye Diggs's latest explores the election season

  • News

    September 26, 2006

    This Is Constantine Maroulis. He Wishes You Knew That.

    In which an American Idol runner-up tops it all by blow-drying his chest

  • News

    April 25, 2006

    Leighton Kerner, 1927–2006

    In which an American Idol runner-up tops it all by blow-drying his chest

  • Specials

    November 22, 2005

    Letters

    In which an American Idol runner-up tops it all by blow-drying his chest

  • Film

    November 15, 2005

    Rent Stabilized

    Columbus's movie version is stiff, stolid, and stuck in an excruciatingly detailed past

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1996

    Columbus's movie version is stiff, stolid, and stuck in an excruciatingly detailed past

  • Columns

    July 27, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Columbus's movie version is stiff, stolid, and stuck in an excruciatingly detailed past

  • NYC Life

    November 4, 2003

    Listings

    Columbus's movie version is stiff, stolid, and stuck in an excruciatingly detailed past

  • Art

    August 26, 2003

    Open Admission

    High Culture on a Low Budget

  • Columns

    June 17, 2003

    NY Mirror

    High Culture on a Low Budget

  • Theater

    April 22, 2003

    The Beautiful Noise

    The Expanding Role of Theater Sound Design

  • Columns

    February 5, 2002

    NY Mirror

    The Expanding Role of Theater Sound Design

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Cybersickness

    Munchausen by Internet Breeds a Generation of Fakers

  • Theater

    June 19, 2001

    Boom Times

    Munchausen by Internet Breeds a Generation of Fakers

  • Columns

    June 6, 2000

    NY Mirror

    Munchausen by Internet Breeds a Generation of Fakers

  • Theater

    December 21, 1999

    Cease and DeSisto

    Munchausen by Internet Breeds a Generation of Fakers

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    B Is For Bistro

    The Bittersweet Transformation of Avenue B

  • Specials

    November 17, 1998

    Letters

    The Bittersweet Transformation of Avenue B

  • Theater

    October 20, 1998

    Of Mice and Men

    The Bittersweet Transformation of Avenue B

  • Books

    October 6, 1998

    Stagestruck

    The Bittersweet Transformation of Avenue B

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