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Allan Larson, father of Jonathan Larson and a dedicated caretaker of the Rent playwright’s legacy, has died. His death was announced last night on Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director of the 2021 Netflix adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical tick,tick…Boom! Additional details were not immediately…

It seems entirely appropriate that Lin-Manuel Miranda would hold off his motion picture directing debut until he had something he clearly could be passionate about. No doubt he has found it in the screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical 1990 Off-Broadway musical tick, tick…BOOM!  Miranda has a close…

EXCLUSIVE: Lin-Manuel Miranda has set Andrew Garfield to star in tick, tick…BOOM! Miranda makes his feature directorial debut for Netflix on the adaptation of the autobiographical Off Broadway show written by Jonathan Larson, who shortly after went on to write the Pulitzer-winning musical Rent. Larson died tragically…

Paramount Studios was blessed with “Seasons of Love” as Fox’s live broadcast of Jonathan Larson’s Rent took the stage at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys. Executive producers Adam Siegel, Julie Larson and Alex Rudzinski as well as stars Vanessa Hudgens  and Emmy nominated actor Brandon Victor Dixon (via Skype) talked…

Tech glitches, broken bones, ghosts of stage productions past and, worst of all, live television’s unfortunate and intrusive vogue for giving studio audiences far, far too much screen time couldn’t do overmuch damage to Rent, Jonathan Larson’s beloved-by-many ’90s musical that added another chapter to both TV’s…

UPDATE: Most of tonight’s “live” Rent on Fox will actually be from a performance taped before a live audience last night, necessitated by Brennin Hunt’s broken foot (see below). The announcement was made by the cast during an early commercial break. The cast gathered to tell the viewing audience that most of tonight’s…

EXCLUSIVE: In what shapes up as a stage-to-film transfer with iconic Broadway talent, Imagine Entertainment has set Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to make his feature directorial debut on Tick, Tick…Boom! That is based on the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the late playwright behind the smash…

Hardly stopping to catch its breath after announcing the live telecast in December of A Christmas Story, Fox announced today that it’s made a deal to present Rent, the 1996 groundbreaking musical that won Tony, Pulitzer and Grammy recognition and ran more than 5,100 performances on Broadway. Marc Platt, who is…