Jonathan Larson

Jeremy Desmon, whose credits includes "The Girl in the Frame," is adapoting the book for the revival of"Good News" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. The DeSylva, Brown & Henderson classic set to open Goodspeed Musicals’ 50th Anniversary...

The names of 35 established and emerging writers, composers and lyricists representing teams for 20 developing shows -- including the creators of "Urinetown" -- will converge on the Goodspeed campus in East Haddam at the end of January to be the inaugural...

The Leonard Bernstein musical "On the Town," a stage adaptation of "The Chosen" and "Much Ado About Nothing" will be the three shows on the main theater at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield, Mass. this summer in the Berkshires "On the Town," directed by...

Sunday, Nov. 4 'Rent' Silhouette Stages presents Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical/rock opera at 3 p.m. at Slayton House Theater, 10400 Cross Fox Lane in Columbia. Tickets are $18; $15 for seniors, students, and military....

Essay contest The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission invites county middle and high school students to participate in the commission's annual essay contest. Winners will be recognized at the commission's annual celebration Jan. 20 at Howard...

Tony Award-nominee Bobby Steggert (Broadway’s “Ragtime”), Emmy Award-nominee Paul Anthony Stewart (“Guiding Light”), Kate Nowlin and Alexis Molnar are featured in the cast of the world premiere of "Harbor" at Westport Country...

There are revelations in David Cromer's intensely textured, hyper-naturalistic "Rent," staged, alley-style, in an thrillingly transformed American Theater Company, on a set designed by Collette Pollard to feel entirely like an gritty extension of the...

The Barrow Street Theatre, an off-Broadway producing venue that keeps a particularly close eye on what's popping in Chicago, is where David Cromer first made his name, when his production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" transferred from Chicago in 2009...

Julie Andrews will direct a new musical, "The Great American Mousical," based on a children's book the award-winning actress wrote with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. The show will receive a workshop production Nov. 8 to Dec. 2 at    Goodspeed...

When you hear the name Idina Menzel, you might think of Shelby Corcoran in "Glee," or Elphaba the witch in "Wicked," or Maureen in "Rent." Menzel has memorably played all three of those women. But in her upcoming PBS concert special and at the Ravinia...

By staging "La Bohème" at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the Pacific Symphony will launch its new "Symphonic Voices" opera-vocal initiative to bring opera back to Orange County. "La Bohème's" enduring tale of carefree Bohemians and star-struck...

The Broadway director David Cromer is in talks with American Theater Company about directing the Chicago company's spring production of Jonathan Larson's "Rent." Artistic director PJ Paparelli confirmed the discussions Monday but said nothing was yet...