(HADDONFIELD, NJ) -- Haddonfield Plays and Players presents Jonathan Larson's Rent weekends from September 19 through October 4, 2025. 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 through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends. 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.
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.
Performances take place Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 3:00pm & 8:00pm (except no matinee on September 20th); and Sundays at 3:00pm. There are performances on Thursday, September 25 and October 2 at 8:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. The theater is located at 957 E Atlantic Avenue in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
The cast includes Zachary R. Taylor (Roger Davis), Brian Herrick (Mark Cohen), Stephen Burse (Tom Collins), Chris Crawford, Jr. (Benjamin Coffin III), Lauren Stefanakis (Joanne Jefferson), Yeshua Irizzary (Angel Dumott Schunard), Emily Colón (Mimi Marquez), and Courtney Bird (Maureen Johnson).
Rounding out the cast is: Kelly Lynn Flores, Adam Johnson, Eva Kleinlein, Rachel Maselek, Aisha Matthews, Taylor Molt, Deitra Oliver, Austin Satinsky, Tatiana Tapang, Ivie Welborn, and L. Bryce Welborn.
The production is Directed by Jenna Kuerzi with Musical Direction by Allison Rossi.
Haddonfield Plays and Players is a gathering of dedicated individuals who come together to provide quality theater at an affordable price to a wide range of Delaware Valley audiences, as well as to provide a creative outlet for non-professionals, all in an atmosphere of personal and social enrichment that is open to all persons with a commitment to non-profit theater.
They offer a wide variety of productions, from comedies to mysteries to musicals. Besides their normal season productions, they also produce shows aimed specifically at children and families as well as special productions for school groups, like their enormously successful Number the Stars program.
