Rent, again, a Review
After closing its twelve year run at the Nederlander Theater three years ago to become the ninth longest runnning show in Broadway history, RENT is back! The original show previously spawned three touring productions, a filmed live version, and a feature film, begging the question: is yet another production viable? Its central characters – Roger, Mark, Mimi, Tom Collins, Angel, and Maureen struggle with daily poverty, love and loss, life and death. All the while, they cling to friendships as they pursue their art and a life to be lived on […]
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I AM My Own Wife is a play about Charlotte, who realized at an early age that “she” didn’t identify with being a he, and it was through a loving grandmother- and a book about transvestism that her grandmother provided — that Charlotte came to understand and accept her female identity. The writer believed he found in Charlotte “a true iconoclastic gay hero,” by the mere fact that she not only existed, but did so publicly as a gay transvestite during both the Nazi and communist Stasi rule over Germany and East Germany, […]
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