“Rent saved my life” reads one scrawled message on a white-board full of similar sentiments, some quoting the legendary 1996 musical: “There’s only this!” “No day but today.” The white-boards—with ...

Thirteen of the musical’s 15 original Broadway cast members came together at The Festival for a loving tribute to Jonathan ...

Larson died the day before the first Off-Broadway preview performance of the acclaimed rock musical Larson's untimely death highlighted the dangers of undiagnosed Marfan syndrome and raised awareness ...

Jonathan Larson's much-loved rock score includes "Seasons of Love", "One Song Glory", and "Light My Fire". Read more on ...

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, ...

Celebrating 30 years since the musical premiered on Broadway, *RENT* is set in New York's East Village and follows a group of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weil, 67, worked closely with Larson, who wrote the book, script and lyrics for the 1996 Broadway show. However, Larson died on ...