RENT

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RENT

movie reviews

‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)

Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you…

Carmen Phillips —

Mar 26, 2024

It's Your Anniversary

RENT

theater

It’s Your Anniversary: Rent Was My First Class On Anti-Capitalism

I felt even more galvanized by the queer anti-capitalist characters I had come to know so well — and felt seen in the small choices I made to work towards…

Em Win —

Jan 25, 2022

kiersey clemons

liveblog

tv show recaps

Viva La Vie Boheme! This Is Your RENT Liveblog!

Join Carmen, Valerie, KaeLyn and Al(aina) as they liveblog RENT live!

Carmen Phillips —

Jan 27, 2019

Brandi Carlile

link roundup

society + culture

Sunday Funday Is Over the Moon About Brandi Carlile’s Grammy Noms

Navajo grandparents advocating for their grandkids, a school in Latin America for trans youth, video games as a way to explore queer identity, plus RENT is back live, tonight! Happy…

Ari —

Jan 27, 2019

kiersey clemons

pop culture fix

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Kiersey Clemons To Play Lesbian Joanne in RENT, Which’s Wise and We’re Satisfied

Topics include the cast of RENT! Live, Jodie Corner playing queer in a feminist short, Janelle Monáe on the cover of Glamour, Dee Rees’ horror film about a black lesbian…

Riese —

Oct 31, 2018

musicals

personal essay

first person

When Real Life’s Getting More Like Fiction Each Day

When I say I was obsessed with RENT, I mean obsessed. I grew straight out of American Girl Magazine into the world of wildly risqué musical theatre. My mother tended…

Ari —

Feb 3, 2016

broadway

musicals

playlists

Give My Regards to Broadway: The Mixtape

“There is nothing I love more than sharing a deafeningly silent, poignant moment with 300 other audience members; grinning wide through a rousing musical number that makes me want to…

KaeLyn —

Jan 26, 2016

beyonce

fleetwood mac

playlists

Playlist: The Healing Power of Song

***Please note that ***Flawless is not available on Spotify, but if were it would probably be the only song on this playlist.

Maddie —

Nov 3, 2014

broadway

greatest hits

theater

Our 17 Most Favorite Musical Cast Recordings Of All Time

Let’s get real deep right now into some hard-core musical theater appreciation.

the team —

Sep 26, 2011

broadway

Daily Fix

theater

RENT Returns to Off-Broadway: No Day But Today To Psychoanalyze Our Queer Attachment to RENT

RENT is being revived Off Broadway in June 2011 and Riese has feelings about it, Ryan Murphy is figuring out the Kurt/Blaine sitch, Queen Latifah hovers around #ItGetsBetter, and the…

Riese —

Nov 16, 2010

broadway

Lists/Top 10s

theater

So Much Drama! – Top Ten Lesbionic Theatrical Experiences

We thought this would be easier — the hardest part, we imagined, would be coming up with just ten. Surely if we thought really hard, wikipedia’ed (we expected a “lesbian…

Riese —

Jun 8, 2009