Gaten Matarazzo Is Making His West End Debut in Rent. Broadway Is Watching.

The Stranger Things star is headlining a 30th-anniversary revival of Jonathan Larson's landmark musical at the Duke of York Theatre. It's a celebrity crossover that signals something larger: how mainstream TV stars are becoming the box office anchor for theatre revivals. The question isn't whether Matarazzo can sing, it's whether his presence reframes what Rent means to a generation that knows him as Dustin Henderson, not as an actor who cuts his teeth on stage.