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Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
Veronica's Room is a theatrical play by Ira Levin (an author best known for Rosemary's Baby), originally mounted in 1973.Because identifying the characters by name would spoil the plot of the play for audience members, printed programs normally identify the four characters as Woman, Man, Girl, and Young Man, [1] which are also the names used for them in the script.
A Strange Loop is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [1] First produced off-Broadway in 2019, then staged in Washington, D.C. in 2021, [2] A Strange Loop premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in April 2022.
If/Then is a musical with a libretto by Brian Yorkey and a theatrical score by Tom Kitt, directed by Michael Greif.It tells the story of a 38-year-old woman named Elizabeth who moves back to New York City for a fresh start.
Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia.
What the Constitution Means to Me is a 2017 American play by Heidi Schreck. [1] The play premiered on Broadway on March 31, 2019 at the Hayes Theater, with Schreck herself in the leading role. [2] Over the course of the play, Schreck addresses themes such as women's rights, immigration, domestic abuse, and the history of the United States. [3]
The Denver Center Theater Company produced the world premiere of Quilters in 1982. [1] The musical then was produced at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, in December 1983; [2] the Pittsburgh Public Theater from December 16, 1983 to January 30, 1984; [3] and for 7 weeks at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, running from August 4, 1984 to September 1984. [4]
A Broadway transfer of the 2018 West End revival opened December 9, 2021, to broad acclaim. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Marianne Elliott once again directed, [ 58 ] and Patti LuPone reprised her role as Joanne, with Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, [ 62 ] choreography by Liam Steel, music supervision and direction by Joel Fram, scenic and costume designs by ...