Hackney Empire, London: A friend remarked that staging Rent in Concert, as this production is billed, is an oxymoron - Jonathan Larson's through-sung show has always felt a bit like one. But there's an even bigger problem with billing it a 20th anniversary tour - the show only opened in its original off-Broadway incarnation in January 1996 (with Larson famously dying on the morning of the first preview). Th…
SOURCE: The Stage at 07:23AM on April 29, 2013