The relationship between form and content is a bedrock of artistic expression.

For live theater, the theaters themselves — as in, the buildings — are the form that houses the content of the shows staged within their walls. And even though scant few productions have the juice to handpick their homes, sometimes, kismet intercedes:

Ghosts haunting a space pervades Appropriate, so how appropriate (ew) that it transferred to The Belasco, renowned as the most haunted venue on The Great White Way.

Speaking of ghosts, if we associate Broadway theaters with their prior tenants, then The Nederlander is owned by Rent in perpetuity. As such, how fitting that another rock opera is now gracing its boards (…but not for long).

And given rock’s origins as being “underground” — in relation to both mainstream society and mainstream theater — the sole Broadway theater below 42nd Street is an apt location for Rent and Tommy.