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Theatre Review: Presented by Opera Australia, RENT returns to blow us away in the Sydney Opera House

Jonathan Larson’s RENT musical was first performed on stage on 26 January 1996, the day after he passed away suddenly in his kitchen. Larson didn’t get to witness the lasting impact his creative work has had at a global level. Almost 30 years later, RENT returns to our country and finds itself in the most…

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Theatre Review: RENT remains a timeless look at NYC during the AIDS crisis – The Queens Theatre, Adelaide

Rent is a musical written by Jonathan Larson about a year in the life of a group of artists struggling to survive in New York during the AIDS epidemic. It Is loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Bohème, contrasting the lavish life with the poverty and homelessness of New York. Some hundred years previously, in…

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