This review aired on KBAQ August 26, 2013

PHOENIX THEATRE’S “RENT” LOOKS OLD AND FEELS TERRIBLY DATED

“RENT”
Phoenix Theatre
Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix Theatre opens its 93rd season with Jonathan Larson’s 1996 once iconic musical “Rent.”  The now 17-year-old show is at an awkward age – not old enough to give us a vibrant historical glimpse into a distant time because we all remember this hippie-inspired period.  “Rent’s” now just old enough that it looks, sounds, and feels terribly dated.

And the PT production never becomes the throbbing, pounding, beat-driven look at those days of protests by the young of everything then considered part of a … Continue Reading