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Much more than a Broadway musical, "Rent" is a cultural force that sets out to speak for a generation. Like its last-generation counterpart "Hair," which opened in 1968 on Broadway, it is the story about a tribe of countercultu[...]

If you hear squeals coming from the Fox Theatre this week, they won’t be from Hannah Montana fans or Jonas Brothers groupies.

The "Rent"-heads of Washington are making the pilgrimage back to the spiritual source this week. And they are seeing that it is still good.

A round of cheers greeted “Rent’s” fantastic drag queen Angel (Justin Johnston) when she sashayed forward wearing her signature Ms. Santa Claus red fur and striped tights.

The "Rent" anthem "Seasons of Love" asks how you measure a year in the life of a man or a woman and answers its own question: Love. How do you measure the life of a musical after 13 years, from Broadway to the national tour now[...]

The “Rent” tour is back in town. Nothing unusual there, you’re likely thinking. Jonathan Larson’s much-loved musical shows up in Chicago every year or two. Well, if that’s what you’re thinking, you’re flat[...]

Ben Franklin said that there are two things you can always count on, death and taxes. Veteran theater critics will add to that list the musical "Rent," which seems to visit the San Diego Civic Theatre with the regularity of a German-run [...]

That striped scarf is back, along with those peroxide blond boys. "Rent," Jonathan Larson's ground-shaking rock musical, is now very, very live at Pantages Theatre, and this Broadway tour features two original cast members, bespectacled [...]

The lyric asks, "How do you leave the past behind?" And the Rentheads answer, "You don't." Crowds stood in the snow from 7 a.m. waiting for cheap seats, wearing their signature black-and-white scarves. The many youthful members[...]

“Tell them to go see it, just GO,” the woman next to me said, through streaming tears.