Photos: First Look at BrightSide Theatre's RENT, Now Through 6/30

This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award rock opera shakes up the modern musical as we know it as it blazes across our stage. Based onPuccini's La Boheme, Rent tells the story of one year in the life of a group of friends who are impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in the New York City's Lower East Side. See just how much can change or doesn't change in the 525,600 minutes that make up a year. Check out a first look at BrightSide Theatre's production of Rent below!

As a way to positively impact Naperville and its surrounding communities, BrightSide Theatre is looking to its patrons to help support 360 Youth Services. 360 Youth Services provides life-changing services through prevention education, counseling and shelter, the same issues that face the characters in RENT. They believe that children, families and young adults already possess most of the tools they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives. Those who make a monetary donation for 360 Youth Services will be given a raffle ticket with the chance to win a pair of tickets to an upcoming BrightSide Theatre production. A pair of tickets will be given out at each performance.

Performing at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville, IL
June 14 - June 30, 2013. Friday and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets: $18-$24
For tickets call 630-637-7469 (SHOW) or www.brightsidetheatre.com

Photos by Tim Robbins