The gritty streets of New York’s East Village are transplanted to Curtis Park with the 24th Street Theatre’s current installment of Rent, presented by Runaway Stage Productions. Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera starts off with conflict – the looming fear of eviction outshines the adorning Christmas lights. The rent is due, and among other conflicts of heart and health, nerdy narrator Mark Cohen introduces us to his musically inhibited and HIV-positive roommate, Roger. Temperatures drop as Mark introduces the viewer to myriad characters: Mimi Marquez, a young and frisky exotic dancer; the slowly deprived Tom Collins; and the once-roommate-now-landlord Benjamin Coffin II