Rent tour dates for 2009

Whether it's your first or fifth time, there's never been a better time to get tickets to Rent. It's the classic Broadway musical about love, friendship and community that has completely transformed how a generation thinks and feels about musical theater - and has changed Broadway forever.

Jonathan Larson's rock musical is the joyous, breathtaking and inspiring story of a group of New York Adam Pascal & Tamyra Gray in RENT City East Village artists struggling to find their voices and find love in today's tough times. Based on Giacomo Puccini's classic 1896 opera, La Boheme, Rent boasts a talented and hot young cast singing some of Broadway's most powerful songs, broaching controversial themes like homelessness, AIDS and drug addiction with compassion, and thrilling audiences of all ages with its moving tale of hopes and dreams.

The show burst upon the theater scene after its creator, Larson, died suddenly on the eve of the show's first performance off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in January 1996. The show then opened to raves on Broadway, winning that year's Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. New York Times critic Ben Brantley raved that Rent "shimmers with hope for the future of the American musical."