Rent Tickets

The successful rock musical Rent is showing throughout the U.S. from now until the end of January 2010.

The first act begins on Christmas Eve with Mark Cohen, a filmmaker who is shooting an undocumented documentary in his loft. His roommate, Roger Davis, a songwriter and former drug addict whose girlfriend committed suicide when she found out that they tested HIV positive. Mark's mother interrupts his filming with a reassuring voicemail about his girlfriend dumping him for a woman.

The next phone call the duo gets is from their former friend and roommate Benny Coffin III, who married into money and bought their apartment building and the lot next to it. Despite his promise to let them live rent-free, he tells them that their rent is due. They decide to rebel against Benny and refuse to pay their rent.

The play continues with an increasingly twisting plot full of love, hate, jealousy, drugs and death.
Rent has gained much critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical, among other awards. In 2005, the musical was made into a motion picture that features many of the original cast members.

Rent was one of the first Broadway musicals to clearly feature gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender characters. It is also noted for its ethnically diverse cast, which includes many racial minorities in its ensemble and leading roles. Rent is considered revolutionary for bringing controversial topics and counterculture to a traditionally conservative medium, and is credited with increasing the popularity of musical theater in the younger generation.[2] Many critics have also mentioned how the show speaks to Generation X the same way that HAIR spoke to the flower generation, calling it "a rock opera for our time, a 'Hair' for the 90's