Street Theatre Company Closes Out 2016 With TICK...TICK...BOOM!

Jonathan Larson's tick...tick...BOOM! closes out 2016 for Nashville's Street Theatre Company, running November 18-December 4 at Holy Trinity Church on Charlotte Pike, starring Christina Candilora, Geoff Davin and Christ Thomas.

Directed by Brett Myers, tick...tick...BOOM! is written by Larson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the Tony Award-winning Rent, and David Auburn, whose Proof earned the playwright his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, as well. tick...tick...BOOM! opened Off-Broadway in 2001 before moving to West End and the London stage.

Tick...tick...BOOM! is performed on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $16 for children, students, and seniors, and there is one Pay-What You-Can performance Thursday, December 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Considered Larson's autobiographic musical, tick...tick...BOOM! tells the story of a composer and the sacrifices he makes to achieve his big break in theater. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue, and yet Jon still waits tables while trying to write the great American musical.

Tick...tick...BOOM! comes at the end of a successful year for Street Theatre following productions of In the Heights, Assassins and Urinetown which played to tremendous audience and critical acclaim.

Jason Tucker closes his first season as Street Theatre's artistic director with this production: "I chose tick, tick...BOOM! to end our Season of Change because of its youthful vitality and the drive and passion of Jon, the leading character," Tucker explains. "This year is the 20th anniversary of the cultural phenomenon that was Rent. What better way to mark that important anniversary than with a production of [Larson's] first true theater piece."

For more information, go to www.streettheatrecompany.org.

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