Rent (Broadway at Duke, 8 p.m. Jan. 24 in Page Auditorium in Durham, NC) is SOLD OUT. Inspired by Puccini’s tragic opera La Bohème, composer, lyricist and librettist Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical focuses on a wild and crazy set of starving young musicians and artists living on the fringes of modern-day society in New York City. For more information, see http://www.duke.edu/web/duu/broadway/broadwayevents.htm#rent or http://www.siteforrent.com/.
About The Author
Robert McDowell
Robert W. McDowell is a Raleigh, NC, freelance writer, editor, and theater critic who served as CVNC's theatre editor from September 2002 to May 2010. Since 1973, the Columbia, SC, native and 1970 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, has written theater, book, and music previews and reviews for the Raleigh News & Observer, The Raleigh Times, North Carolina Magazine of Raleigh, and Spectator Magazine of Raleigh. In April 2001, Robert McDowell established Robert's Reviews, an e-mail theatrical newsletter, to help fill a growing void in Triangle theater coverage. Triangle Theater Review is an expanded version of the original newsletter, circulated by e-mail. He also co-edited and supervised the production of Jim Valvano's Guide to Great Eating (JTV Enterprises, 1984), a 224-page celebrity cookbook; and he served as a fact checker for Valvano: They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead (Pocket Books, 1991).