Redline Performing Arts’ Rent is a rock musical about a group of impoverished young artists living in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1980s and early 1990s, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. The story follows their struggles with poverty, love, life, and loss, especially as many of the characters live with the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The narrative focuses on the relationships and conflicts within the group as they confront mortality and strive to live in the present moment (“No day but today”).