Rent is Jonathan Larson’s rock musical based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to create and survive in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.

Rent is the best show in years, if not decades. … Rent makes the musical theater joyously important again. —Jeremy Gerard, Variety [variety.com]

At last, a show that lives up to its hype! Rent is theatre at its best: passionate, exhuberant, uplifting, and joyous. … Rent features the best theatre score in years—maybe decades. —Theatremania.com [theatermania.com]