Desc: Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway: Directed by Michael John Warren. With Will Chase, Adam Kantor, Michael McElroy, Rodney Hicks. Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.