Anyone who saw Rent in its original incarnation at the New York Theatre Workshop will no doubt be discomfited to see that it has now become a theatrical brand. Just three years after it closed on Broadway after a twelve-- year run, it has returned in a fresh production at the New World Stages, that subterranean theatrical venue where dead or dying Main Stem shows go to be reborn.   The revival, its producers ha…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:28AM on August 15, 2011