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Tick, tick … Boom! review – a triumphant shout for theatrical ambition

Performed and designed with gusto, Jonathan Larson’s zippy musical about creative passion is a fitting show to relaunch this cherished Welsh stage

The Guardian - UK

Theater producer Jeffrey Seller, behind 'Rent' and 'Hamilton,' shines a light on his own journey

Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton,” didn’t initially write a memoir for us

The Independent UK

Why are flies attracted to humans?

Flies are attracted to our pungent "cloud of effervescence," experts say.

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35 must-see Netflix original movies

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Rent review – earnest Australian production doesn’t save the musical from feeling like parody

Musical theatre can get away with being daggy and manipulative but this show pushes it too far – and this remount doesn’t overcome its faults

The Guardian - AU

Love never gets old, says director of musical Rent

Jonathan Larson's Rent was radical when it was first staged in 1996. But now that almost 30 years have passed, how does a touring production keep it fresh?

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‘I hope it will send a message’: musical Rent to be reimagined with deaf actors

Using an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing actors, director Lilac Yosiphon aims to explore the isolation felt by the deaf community during the Aids crisis in the 1980s

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Billions of cicadas will buzz this spring as two broods emerge at the same time

Billions of cicadas will emerge this spring across eastern and southern states as two broods arrive simultaneously for the first time in more than 200 years.

WEKU

La Vie Bohème: Broadway musical RENT is coming to town in 2024

'It would be difficult to find someone who hasn't heard of it.'

Newcastle Herald

Cicadas ring out across Kentucky, but just wait until next year

The song of the Cicada may be sounding off in your neck of the woods this week. But, it’s nothing compared to the roar of abdomen-flexing insects anticipated in some parts of Kentucky in the next two years.

WEKU

Large ant mounds may be just what the yard doctor ordered

Springtime is a time for insects to make their presence known in a bigger way. That may be found in large brown dirt mounds around the yard.

WEKU

What happened to melodies in today’s movie musicals?

Movie musicals used to promise tunes for everyone forever, but is that kind of songwriting a lost art? Tim Rice and The Greatest Showman’s Greg Wells talk to Will Taylor

The Independent UK

‘Why didn’t I notice the parallels?’ – Mark Ravenhill on finally seeing his own life in La Bohème

When he embarked upon a gay version of the classic opera, the playwright began to see himself – and elements of his breakthrough play – reflected in the Puccini’s tale of doomed love

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Paul Feig’s cultural highlights

The American comedian and director on feeling at home in Claridge’s, being moved by Bob Marley’s wife, and drinking with London’s king of the martini

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Andrew Garfield, Lin-Manuel Miranda join to make art that sings

Lin-Manuel Miranda warned Andrew Garfield he might not get it at first as he slid music and lyrics across the table. What Garfield did get, eventually, was a "long-lost brother" in the late Jonathan Larson, writer of the musical phenomenon "Rent." And, one supposes, by a kind of associative property,…

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