“Greene Street” is a standalone “theatre song” that Jonathan Larson wrote in 1983. He was 23 years old and had just moved to New York City after growing up in White Plains and going to college at ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring more than 20 songs that have never been part of a fully staged production – including material cut from Rent and tick, tick… BOOM! – ...

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 ...

“The Jonathan Larson Project” debuts unheard and unstaged songs from the gone-too-soon composer. Maybe they should have stayed buried. Senior Editor and Writer “Rent saved my life” reads one scrawled ...

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 ...

Ahead of the first performance of The Jonathan Larson Project on February 14, watch the cast perform two songs in rehearsal! In new videos, the cast performs "SOS" and "One of These Days." Watch as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cast of Rent performing on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' in November 1996 "There's a song in the show called 'Halloween' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new musical was conceived by Jennifer Ashley Tepper and is directed by John Simpkins, with Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, ...

“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 ...

Larson was working on 'Rent' until he tragically died the day before the show's first Off-Broadway preview performance Larson wrote multiple versions of "Halloween," but they ultimately decided to ...