After Jonathan Larson's unexpected passing, the Rent creative team helped finish the musical masterpiece.

Who wrote what in Rent? That's the question the courts are trying to answer.

Who wrote what in Rent? That's the question the courts will try to answer July 21, when a pending lawsuit against the Jonathan Larson estate comes to trial at the District Court in NYC. Dramaturg Lynn M. Thomson filed suit against the estate, claiming she was underpaid for her doctoring and advice that helped turn Rent into a hit.

HOW IT GOT THROUGH PREVIEWS WITHOUT ITS AUTHOR

The iconic Jonathan Larson rock musical Rent returned to New York this summer, opening Aug. 11 in a new Off-Broadway production at New World Stages.

The iconic Jonathan Larson rock musical Rent returned to New York this summer, opening Aug. 11 in a new Off-Broadway production at New World Stages.

Rent, the award-winning Broadway rock musical about a group of friends, lovers and artists seeking to express themselves in the age of AIDS, opens anew in Manhattan Aug. 11 in a freshly conceived production Off-Broadway, where the show had its first blush in February 1996.

Lynn Thomson's lawsuit seeking co-author and financial recompense from the Broadway hit Rent was dismissed July 23 after a three-day trial in New York District Court.

After the close of trial business on Tuesday, July 22, Orin Snyder, an attorney with the firm of Parcher, Hayes & Libeman who represents the family of the late playwright and composer Jonathan Larson, could hardly contain his excitement.

Attorney Russell Smith, counsel for Candace Carell, the artist and designer responsible for the distinctive make up and look that “brought the cats in Cats to life” has announced that the make-up artist has prevailed in court and expects to have her case presented before a civil jury in New York City. The fifth attorney to represent Carell in this case, Smith says that a “unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, led by Chief Judge John M. Walker, Jr. and joined by Judges Jose Cabranes and Chester J. Straub, has denied the Cats producers permission to appeal from the lower court ruling that her copyright infringement and false advertising claims should be allowed to proceed.”

By mid-morning April 27, police were moving in on a Lower East Side New York City building occupied by squatters for the past six years. Barricades have been set up, and women and children were being moved out of the building at 9th Street and Avenue C, while 20 or so "tenants" remained to protest the building's evacuation.

Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage presents Our War, a new theatrical event and collection of short stories that explores the history and present-day impact of the U.S. Civil War, beginning Oct. 21.

Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage will present Our War, a new theatrical event and collection of short stories that explores the history and present-day impact of the U.S. Civil War.