Off-Broadway Rent Revival Sets July 14 Move In Date at New World Stages

The previously announced off-Broadway revival of Rent will begin performances on July 14 at New World Stages. The new production, helmed by Rent's original director Michael Greif, will open on August 11. No casting has been announced.

Featuring a score and book by the late Jonathan Larson, Rent follows a group of young, eccentric New Yorkers as they struggle with love and loss during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The show first premiered off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop on January 26, 1996. The musical then transferred to the Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996 where it ran for 12 years before closing on September 7, 2008.

Rent will follow the example set by two other Broadway hits, Avenue Q and The 39 Steps, that found fresh life at New World Stages after their Broadway runs.