author: Leonard Taube

I could give you 525,600 reasons to go see Laurel Mill Playhouse’s production of RENT but that would be silly.  So, I’ll give you one.  How about love?

Jonathan Larson’s masterpiece chronicles the lives of several struggling young artists/activists/musicians in New York set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic.  With roots loosely in the 1896 opera La Boheme, Larson’s tale is set in the then-thriving Alphabet City in Lower Manhattan’s East Village in New York. 

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