Original cast members and a bevy of special guests will revive the Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical sensation RENT in a gala concert celebration for the show’s 30th anniversary.
The one-night-only concert of the full show will take place on Monday, October 26, 2026, at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Sponsorships and tickets will go on sale go on sale at 12 p.m. EST. on Monday, June 1, 2026 here.
Special guest performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Rent’s original director, five-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif, will return to direct the evening. The show’s original music director, Tim Weil, also will return, leading the entire original Rent band: Kenny Brescia, Stephanie Mack, Jeff Potter and Daniel A. Weiss.
“Jonathan wrote Rent in honor of the people he knew who were living and struggling with HIV and in honor of the many friends and contemporaries he lost to AIDS,” Greif said. “I know he’d be proud and honored to join forces with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to celebrate the 30th year anniversary of his milestone musical.”
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical reimagines La Bohème in the AIDS-era East Village of New York City, following a tight-knit group of artists navigating love, loss and survival at the turn of a generation. With its electrifying score and deeply human stories, Rent captures the urgency of living fully in the face of uncertainty, a cultural touchstone that continues to inspire audiences to measure life in love.
