A fun, accessible English translation of the original French novel by Henri Murger that the show is based on
The original Broadway
cast album
Artistic Director Scott Miller's analysis and background essay about Rent, from his book Rebels with Applause
The
Rent coffee table book, including the entire script
This
Charlie Rose interview with the
original artistic team and three of the original leads
Anthony Rapp's
Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and
the Musical Rent
The
final performance on Broadway filmed
live, on DVD
Photos from the East Village in
the 1990s
The excellent book
Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s
A timeline of the AIDS epidemic