A new season of love: hit musical Rent returns to the West End with Gaten Matarazzo – in pictures

Close dialogue 1/14 Next image Previous image Toggle caption A new season of love: hit musical Rent returns to the West End with Gaten Matarazzo – in pictures Jonathan Larson’s much-loved show about New York artists has been revived for its 30th anniversary with a cast including the Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo as Mark in Rent. lives of his friends including Roger (Travis Ross). Rent’s popular songs include Seasons of Love, which asks how you measure a year – whether in minutes, sunsets, cups of coffee or love Rent was created by Jonathan Larson who died aged 35 on the eve of the musical’s first preview off-Broadway in 1996. It went on to win a Pulitzer prize, ran for more than 5,000 performances on Broadway and won four Tony awards This revival is directed by Luke Sheppard, an Olivier award-winner for Paddington: The Musical.

Sheppard previously directed Rent at Manchester’s Hope Mill theatre in 2020 Danielle Fiamanya (left) and Lazy Violet play girlfriends, Maureen and Joanne Alexa Lopez plays Mimi, top, one of the characters who is HIV positive in the musical, set during New York’s Aids crisis Another central relationship is between Angel (Jeevan Braich) and Collins (Billy Nevers) The lighting design is by Howard Hudson, set design by David Woodhead and costume design by Gabriella Slade This is the West End debut of Gaten Matarazzo, best known as Dustin Henderson in the Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things Homes for sale in landmark towers in England and Scotland – in pictures From a neo-baronial country house with turrets in acres of grounds in Scotland to a modernist tower block in a bustling part of London 1. #### You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit 2. #### Letitia James appointed special prosecutor in alleged gang-rape at Cornell 3. #### Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes 4. #### The week in wildlife: a rescued orangutan, the chonkiest bear and a barn owl’s triumph 5. #### The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear – podcast 6. #### Kanye West’s sold-out Russia concerts cancelled, organisers confirm 7. #### Hitting the sweet spot: bear treats itself to baked goods at Colorado farmers’ market 8. #### Trump doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterm elections 9. #### A Louisiana preschooler was allegedly abused at school. Then a hospital counselor discussed her chart with her principal 10. #### Margot Robbie changing her name to her husband’s hurts my beautiful lesbian brain.

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