How ‘Rent: Live’ is Reimagining Jonathan Larson for Prime Time
Twenty years after he premiered the musical Off-Broadway, director Michael Greif promises an all-new production, with a 1,500-person studio audience.
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Twenty years after he premiered the musical Off-Broadway, director Michael Greif promises an all-new production, with a 1,500-person studio audience.
He’s happily played underdogs and second bananas, but in a new musical from Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, the ‘Pitch Perfect’ star at last has a role with range—and not just vocally speaking.
Great actors in the full sway of their passions are likely to be more persuasive conduits to the interior of plays than the arbitrary, decorative conceptions of postmodernist directors.