The RENT Ticket Lottery!

Landmark Musical Theatre has announced that nine front row seats to its summer production of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning smash hit musical RENT will be available at each performance by randomized selection (called the "RENT ticket lottery") for the low price of $10. Landmark's theater only holds 99 people so this is almost 10% of the total seating capacity.

The tradition of low-priced lottery tickets for RENT began in 1996 in New York when the show moved to Broadway after a sold-out run at the Public Theatre. The show's producers wanted to offer tickets to people who might not otherwise be able to see the show because of soaring Broadway ticket prices. What began as "rush" tickets two hours before each performance became a lottery when the lines stretching east and west from the Nederlander theater became unmanageably long.

Landmark is committed to continuing this tradition during our San Francisco run from July 9 to August 14, 2022. The day before each performance starting at 8 AM, anyone may sign up online with their name, email address and telephone number for tickets to the following evening's (or the following afternoon's, for matinees) performance. Each entry may request exactly ONE or TWO tickets. No purchase is necessary at the time of entry. At 6 PM, the sign-ups will close and all lottery entries will be randomized and the first 9 tickets will be offered to the lottery entrants in the top positions until all nine tickets have been offered.

Each entrant who is awarded a ticket purchase opportunity will be notified by email and will have until 10 PM to purchase their ticket(s). The tickets will be purchased from our ticketing website (Audience 1st) using a link provided ih the email. There are no additional fees other than the ticket price. Entrants MUST purchase the number of tickets offered to them by 10 PM or their opportunity will be cancelled and the tickets will be offered to the next person(s) in the randomized lottery list.

If you do not receive a ticket purchase opportunity for one performance, you may continue to enter for subsequent performances (but you must re-enter for each performance, there are no carryovers). However, the same email address will only be permitted to be offered tickets once during the lottery. If you do not purchase tickets that are offered to you, you will not be able to participate in the lottery again during the run, so please be sure you will be able to attend and that you will purchase the correct number of tickets if you are offered the opportunity.

We wish everyone good luck and hope to see you at the theatre!