Opens February 28th!

Show officially opens February 28th and runs through March 16th, 2025
Fridays and Saturdays 7:00 PM, Sundays 2:00 PM

@ The Hales Center for the Performing Arts
(on the campus of Southwestern Oregon Community College)

La Vie Boheme!

Jonathan Larson’s iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love. Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals, and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.

Music, Lyrics and Book by: Jonathan Larson
Produced by: On Broadway Thespians
Directed by: Julianna Seldon
Vocal Direction by: Luanne May
Choreography by: Danaye Gonzalez