Curtain Call with Original Cast during "Rent" Celebrates 10th Anniversary on Broadway - April 24, 2006 at The Nederlander Theater in New York

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Following much anticipation and speculation, the official Rent reunion has announced the details.

On Monday, October 26, 2026, a one-night-only gala concert will take place to celebrate the Broadway rock opera’s 30th anniversary. The event will take place at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Sponsorships and tickets will go on sale to the public at noon Eastern time on Monday, June 1, at broadwaycares.org/rent30. Members of Broadway Cares’ Visionary Circle, Angels Circle and NextGen Network will have early access to tickets beginning today, Tuesday, May 12.

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

Guest performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

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

“I really wanted to make something that has the spirit of the original, something as disruptive as the first,” Hodges said. “That ad was as if the characters of Mark, Roger, Mimi, Angel, Collins, Maureen and Joann used a typewriter and Xerox machine to make their own ad. So, we thought about what poster those same characters would make for the 30th, and built it on top of that first ad. We also wanted to make something that people who love Rent might keep and frame.”

Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical reimagines the classic opera La Bohème in the AIDS-era East Village in New York City.

“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.”

Rent was produced by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum and Allan S. Gordon. It debuted at the New York Theatre Workshop before transferring to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in 1996. It played 5,123 performances, closing September 7, 2008.

“Few works have captured the urgency, humanity and resilience of a generation like Rent,” Danny Whitman, executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, said. “Jonathan Larson provided a voice to communities and reminded us all of the power of compassion, care and showing up for one another. We are proud to carry that legacy forward every day, providing lifesaving meals, medication, health care and hope to people living with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses across the country. And through this extraordinary anniversary concert, that spirit of collaboration will translate into even more care and critical support for those who need it most today.”

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