Rent 30th Anniversary Concert Directed by Michael Greif Set for October 26

A one-night-only gala concert of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Rent by Jonathan Larson will celebrate the show’s 30th anniversary. The concert of the full show will take place on Monday, October 26, at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Original cast members and special guests performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Rent’s original director, five-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif, will return to direct the concert. The show’s original music director, Tim Weil, will also return, to lead the entire original Rent band: Kenny Brescia, Stephanie Mack, Jeff Potter, and Daniel A. Weiss.

The poster art for the 30th anniversary concert (shown below) has been designed by Naomi Mizusaki, who created the show’s first ad, and Drew Hodges, who led Rent‘s original design team.

Rent, which reimagines La Bohème in the AIDS-era East Village of New York City, premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop before transferring to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in 1996, where it ran until September 7, 2008.

Click here for more information tickets, which go on sale on Monday, June 1, at noon.