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Rent for a concert production in August. Directed by Nikolai Foster, the piece follows a group of bohemian artists living in a New York apartment block as the city goes through a fresh wave of gentrification, all against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It will be presented in the round at the award-winning space. Playing from 10 to 21 August, the piece has musical arrangements from Steve Skinner, musical supervision and arrangements by Tim Weil, original concept and additional lyrics from Billy Aronson and dramaturgy from Lynn Thomson. Casting and creative team is to be revealed. Cu...

The Birth of ‘Rent,’ Its Creator’s Death and the 25 Years Since With a virtual performance marking the Broadway musical’s anniversary, original cast and creative team members talk about losing Jonathan Larson and carrying on his legacy. Jonathan Larson, left, who wrote the music, lyrics and book of “Rent,” with the play's director, Michael Greif, in 1996.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times What’s 525,600 times 25? It has been 25 years — or, to use a memorable “Seasons of Love” calculation, 13.14 million minutes — since “Rent” up...

Daphne Rubin-Vega played Mimi in Rent. "It was a lot of fun to actually be able to practically apply my research of partying ..." she says. "I knew these people. I knew this world." She's pictured above with Adam Pascal in New York Theatre Workshop's 1996 production of Rent. Joan Marcus On Jan. 25, 1996, a new rock musical by a little-known writer, Jonathan Larson, gave its first performance. Friends and family filed into a small off-Broadway theater to see Rent. The show was a retelling of La Boheme, set on the Lower East Side of New York, as people were dying of AIDS. It bec...

17 February 2021 AI startup founders reveal their artificial intelligence trends for 2021 From AI's increased use in healthcare, finance and HR to the challenge of talent acquisition and the growing importance of structured and unstructured data, 16 AI startup founders reveal their artificial intelligence trends for 2021 What are the big industry trends in the AI space? In the final article of a three part series* focusing on what AI startup founders are doing to navigate the fast growth AI industry, Information Age spoke to 16 founders of som...

6 scaling UK health-tech start-ups to watch Health-tech dominates the latest round of scaling start-ups selected for a six-month UK accelerator. Tech Nation has announced the newest cohort for Upscale, its flagship growth accelerator focused on mid-stage tech companies in the UK. Upscale targets fast-growing tech companies and aims to speed up their progress. To qualify, companies must be backed by venture capital, having raised a Series A funding round, or be seeing revenue of £1.5m to £5m. Upscale companies must also be growing at a rate of about 10pc month-on-month. Previous participants...