Home › Entities › dramatico_musical_work › Rent

Rent

rock musical, loosely based on La Bohème, set in New York during the AIDS Crisis
MusicRecording dramatico_musical_work Q553890
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Rent

Summary

Rent is a dramatico-musical work[1]. Rent ranks in the top 0.24% of dramatico_musical_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,309 views/month, #7 of 2,893).[2]

Key Facts

  • Rent received the Tony Award for Best Musical[3].
  • Rent received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical[4].
  • Rent received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical[5].
  • Rent received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music[6].
  • Rent received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics[7].
  • Rent received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[8].
  • Rent's instance of is recorded as dramatico-musical work[9].
  • Rent's composer is recorded as Jonathan Larson[10].
  • Rent's librettist is recorded as Jonathan Larson[11].
  • Rent's genre is rock musical[12].
  • Rent's based on is recorded as La bohème[13].
  • Rent's Commons category is recorded as Rent (musical)[14].
  • Rent's language of work or name is recorded as English[15].
  • Rent's country of origin is recorded as United States[16].
  • Rent's lyricist is recorded as Jonathan Larson[17].
  • Rent's date of first performance is recorded as 1996[18].
  • Rent's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Rent'}[19].
  • Rent's different from is recorded as Rent[20].
  • Rent's location of first performance is recorded as New York Theatre Workshop[21].
  • Rent's derivative work is recorded as Rent[22].
  • Rent's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Q136402326[23].
  • Rent's form of creative work is recorded as musical[24].
  • Rent's fandom is recorded as Renthead[25].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Musical[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 71672c4c-fe74-40fa-8570-860398edbca9[27]

Body

Recognition

Awards received include Tony Award for Best Musical[3], a theatre award[28], in United States[29]; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical[4], a class of award[30]; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical[5], a class of award[31]; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music[6], a class of award[32]; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics[7], a class of award[33]; and Pulitzer Prize for Drama[8], an award[34].

Why It Matters

Rent ranks in the top 0.24% of dramatico_musical_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,309 views/month, #7 of 2,893).[2] Rent has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Rent is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

FAQs

What awards did Rent receive?

Honors received include Tony Award for Best Musical[3], Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical[4], Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical[5], and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music[6].

Related Entities

Idina Menzel Jonathan Larson United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [8] ↑ . pulitzer.org. pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Rent. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/rent
MLA “Rent.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/rent.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_rent_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Rent}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/rent}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Rent — https://4ort.xyz/entity/rent (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/rent · Last refreshed: