This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Jonathan Larson lived only long enough to write one musical, but even though that show opened almost ten years ago, it's still running on Broadway today. Rent, ...

Nearly 30 years after his untimely death, an all-new musical from Jonathan Larson is coming to the stage. The new musical, conceived by Jennifer Ashley Tepper and directed by John Simpkins, will have ...

No musical theatre fan needs reminding of the utter tragedy of Jonathan Larson’s passing just hours before Rent made its Off-Broadway debut. The legacy that the composer and his works have left behind ...

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 ...

Jonathan David Larson was born on February 4, 1960, in Mount Vernon, New York, to Nanette (née Notarius) and Allan Larson. He grew up in White Plains, New York, where he developed an early interest in ...

The new production features songs from the late “Rent” composer Jonathan Larson. When “Rent” composer Jonathan Larson died at age 35, he left behind boxes of unproduced work. Now on stage at the ...

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 ...