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EXCLUSIVE: LA's Dances With Films celebrates 26 Years of storytelling June 22-July 2 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.  The festival will open with the World Premiere of Good Side of Bad, a powerful drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Beverly Olevin. Directed by Alethea…

Hamilton got in on the January 6 anniversary act, so why not Rent? CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night set the anniversary to music with a parody version of Rent’s “Season of Love,” examining the 525,600 since the insurrection through the show’s comedic lens. Changing the lyrics of Jonathan Larson’s…

James C. Nicola, whose tenure as artistic director of Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop included the development of such prominent stage works as Rent, Once,  Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play and David Bowie’s Lazarus, will leave the post next year, the company announced today. “In July…

EXCLUSIVE: Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in both the Off Broadway and Broadway landmark productions of Rent and coming off the Lin Manuel/Warner Bros. feature In The Heights, will appear in a major recurring role on the CW’s upcoming Riverdale off-shoot Katy Keene. She’ll play Luisa, the mother of a central…

A 30-year-old production designer hailing from the world of New York theater, Jason Sherwood entered the world of television just last year, and has already racked up his first Emmy nomination, for his contributions to Rent: Live. Interning for Derek McLane—the production designer behind The Sound of Music Live!—at a…

Since its Off Broadway debut, Rent has been the stuff of showbiz drama — not just onstage but also backstage. Tragically, its creator Jonathan Larson died suddenly just before the soon-to-be-iconic musical opened in 1996, yet the show still went on to great Tony-winning success, followed by a film version. Earlier…

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…

Fox Entertainment chairman Charlie Collier said Wednesday at TCA that he does not regret airing Rent and also does not see a future of live musicals in which lead characters all have understudies. Asked what he learned from the experience, Collier admitted he’d sent handwritten notes to everyone involved in the…

In case you’re wondering what last night’s Rent studio audience was seeing when the rest of the country — or at least the 3.42 million viewers who made up the lowest viewership for one of these TV musical events — Fox and some of the folks who actually were there are providing a glimpse. In fact, Fox already has a…

Fox’s broadcast of a not-really-live Rent on Sunday finished with a 1.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 3.42 million viewers in early numbers, marking the lowest-rated of the broadcast networks’ musical event shows. Still, the three-hour adaptation won in the demo in every half-hour (and was No. 1 in…

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…

Michael Greif knew Rent would stay in his life – his entire life – by the late 1990s. Jonathan Larson’s rock musical inspired by Puccini’s La bohème – making its TV debut as a special live event on Fox this Sunday – had already stunned New York’s theater world with a 1993 Off Broadway workshop, then 1996’s full Off…