Three actors who are all transgender or gender nonconforming are photographed in front of a brick wall. On the left is Luke Halpern, wearing a red leather skirt and a black turtleneck. They have curly lightish brown hair and facial hair. Center and slightly forward is Alec Phan in a paisley patterned shirt, with a white undershirt visible beneath. They also wear blue-framed glasses and a beaded necklace and are clean shaven. At right is Crystal Claros, wearing black-and-white plaid trousers, a white T-shirt, and a denim jacket. They have short black hair

Jonathan Larson is well-known as the playwright of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, but that powerful musical about struggling artists affected by the out-of-control AIDS epidemic in New York’s Alphabet City was not his only contribution to the genre. The playwright, who never even saw one of his own plays produced—he died […]

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