Nearly Naked Theatre presents “Rent,” Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini’s opera La BohËme.

    This show follows a year in the lives of seven friends living in New York City’s East Village. Ravaged by the physical and emotional complications of AIDS and struggling against the soul-destroying apathy and “emotional disconnection” of many of America’s youth, these friends tether to each other as they painfully learn that love is the only thing worth living for … and live life to its fullest, every day.

 

“Rent” opens on Saturday, Aug. 15 and runs 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 or 6 p.m. Sundays (alternating), through Sept. 12, inside Phoenix Theatre’s Little Theatre, 100 E. McDowell Road, behind the Phoenix Art Museum.

    Tickets are $29.50 general admission, all inclusive, and $25 for students, seniors, military personnel and teachers (ID required). For tickets, call 602-254-2151. For more information,  visit www.nearlynakedtheatre.org or call 602-274-2432.