Event Dime

RENT at Gilbert Theater

When:

May 17, 2026 · 4:00 AM

Where:

Gilbert Theater, 116 Green Street, Fayetteville, NC

Source:

Distinctly Fayetteville NC – Events

Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s 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 th