After twelve years, 5,124 performances and a haul of $280 million, Rent's Broadway run has come to an end. The musical closed yesterday after a final sold-out performance packed with diehard fans (the "Rentheads") and a smattering of celebrities (a couple Gossip Girl cast members). Just before the curtain came down for the final time, members of the show's original company joined the current cast on stage to "Seasons of Love," one of the show's most famous songs, the Associated Press reports....

RENT, the surprise smash hit musical that premiered in 1996 and went on to become the seventh-longest-running Broadway show in history, will close June 1st, producers have announced. Over the years the show cultivated a fanatical army of young repeat viewers (“Rentheads”) whose ardor has translated into profits of $280 million on Broadway, four Tony awards and a Pulitzer. Productions have been mounted on six continents, while an ill-conceived movie version of the show, filmed......

Don’t misunderstand me. I liked John Weir’s What I Did Wrong. It’s well written and the characters are human and endearing – the pages certainly kept turning. But it felt as though there was one ingredient missing, which would have made it a novel I loved. What I Did Wrong is queer New York, put to the page after the highs and lows of the eighties and nineties. It follows Tom, a middle-aged English professor......