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Celebrating Jonathan Larson, Creator of ‘Rent,’ in a New Show Off Broadway

“The Jonathan Larson Project,” a years-in-the-making musical collage of Larson’s life, features songs he wrote before he died. Now it’s onstage at the Orpheum.

By MOSAEC

Actors and Actresses Black People Carmen Jones (Movie) Deaths (Obituaries) James, Olga (1929-2025) Movies Mr. Wonderful (Play) Nineteen Hundred Fifties Opera Theater

Olga James, a Star of ‘Carmen Jones’ and ‘Mr. Wonderful,’ Dies at 95

An operatic soprano, she had high-profile roles on film and stage in the 1950s. But after that, she mostly spent her career away from the limelight.

By Richard Sandomir

Anna Mullarkey Safe House (Play) St Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY) Theater Walsh, Enda

‘Safe House’ Review: Singing a Song of Loneliness

Enda Walsh’s formal experiment, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

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Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink and More Had Broadway Debuts as Kids. Now They’re Back.

Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink and Christian Slater are among this year’s unusually large cohort of stars who first appeared onstage as tweens or even younger.

By Michael Paulson