Taye Diggs is back in the lineup for RENT, the 30th Anniversary Concert, joining more than 60 Broadway performers for the one-night-only benefit on Monday, October 26, 2026. The original Rent cast member will appear at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, where the concert will stream live.
More than 60 performers are now attached to the event, including Norbert Leo Butz and Rachel Zegler. The concert is built around Jonathan Larson’s musical and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with ViiV Healthcare as the evening’s presenting sponsor.
Richard Rodgers Theatre lineup
The concert’s roster also includes Timothy Britten Parker and Byron Utley, two more original Rent cast members. That keeps the event rooted in the show’s history while widening the lineup beyond the original ensemble.
By the time the curtain rises, the scale will be hard to miss: this is not a small reunion, but a large benefit concert with a Broadway cast list spread across generations. The live stream extends that reach beyond the room, which is the practical way these one-night events now scale fundraising.
24 lottery tickets
In-person tickets are sold out, even though 24 tickets will still be made available through a digital lottery powered by Broadway Direct. The lottery is open at broadwaycares.org/rent30lottery and closes at 2 pm Eastern on Tuesday, October 27.
The stream itself carries the fundraising engine farther. The Gates Foundation will match donations from every livestream ticket purchase up to $525,600, a figure tied to the lyric in Rent’s Seasons of Love.
Livestream through October 27
The livestream will remain available until 11 pm Eastern on Tuesday, October 27, giving buyers a wider viewing window than the theater audience gets. At $30 per stream ticket, the event is set up as both access point and donation drive, which is the smarter model for a sold-out benefit built around demand that outstrips the room.
What remains most useful for readers is the same thing that makes the concert newsworthy: Taye Diggs is part of a large original-and-new lineup, but the practical path in is now digital, not physical. For anyone trying to get in, the lottery and the stream are the only routes left.
