Schulman takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour of New York's theatre culture providing a glimpse into the power structure that makes up the theatre and media scene as she depicts her fight for compensation from the estate of Jonathan Larson, whose award-winning musical Rent shares many characters and situations with her novel People in Trouble, a novel she published in 1991 and that Jonathan Larson read and was familiar with prior to writing Rent.
Schulman learns that there many mainstream artists who borrow material from lesser-known artist and go on to be successful and win awards, but who fail to provide even the smallest mention of the origin of their work.
Schulman fica sabendo que existem vários artistas famosos que pegam materiais de artistas que não são tão famosos e que eles acabam fazendo sucesso e ganhando prêmios, mas que nunca sequer mencionam as origens da sua arte.
Schulman fica sabendo que existem vários artistas famosos que pegam materiais de artistas que não são tão famosos, e que eles acabam fazendo sucesso e ganhando prêmios, mas que nunca sequer mencionam as origens da sua arte.