Jonathan Larson News

Ars Nova will honor writers Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu (Pass Over) and Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen, FX’s Fosse/Verdon, Netflix’s tick, tick…boom!), at Nova Ball, Ars Nova’s annual benefit.

Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared on Netflix Film Club to discuss his directorial debut with tick, tick...BOOM! He discusses how the film is personal to him, how it's similar to Hamilton and In the Heights, and approaching the film as if it were a reading of a new musical. The video also features new rehearsal and filming footage from the production.

Empire Records: The Musical will receive a private industry reading helmed by Obie Award-winning director Trip Cullman (Choirboy) on December 7, 2021 at Roundabout Studios in NYC.

Vikki Stone is an award-winning comedian, actor and composer. She usually spends the festive season on stage in a panto. But this year, she's the composer of Aladdin, currently playing at the Lyric Hammersmith. We spoke with Stone about her involvement in the production.

Jonathan Larson's small off-Broadway show about love and fear during the AIDS pandemic and has had a phenomenal life- Tony and Pulitzer Awards, running on Broadway for twelve years and seen worldwide in successive tours. Loosely based on Pucinni's La Bohème, the play touches a strong cord among young adults and artists in its portrayal of the incredible fear of death, the joys of new love and the loss of creative spaces. We here in San Francisco can surely empathize with Rent's messages. This spectacular touring cast was embraced heartily by a very youthful audience, who, while not born during the AID crisis, still experience its long-lasting ramifications.

Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Robin de Jesús, Alexandra Shipp, and Joshua Henry sit down with Netflix to break down tick, tick...BOOM!'s 'Boho Days' shot-by-shot. Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical film also features MJ Rodriguez, Bradley Whitford, Tariq Trotter, and Judith Light.

For twenty-five years, Jonathan Larson’s RENT has inspired audiences to choose love over fear and to live without regret. But perhaps just as importantly, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning phenomenon celebrates artists and the raw courage and commitment they evince in daring to pursue their craft – almost always in a community of like-minded misfits, non-conformists and crazies. -- Linda Hodges

Jonathan Larson's posthumous success may be a unique story, but tick, tick... Boom! deals with a universal truth most artists must deal with sometime in their lives.

The experience of listening to the soundtrack to Netflix's adaptation of tick, tick... BOOM! is a highly specific one, and all the more emotional for that specificity.

El actor interpreta a Michael en la adaptación cinematográfica de Netflix del musical de Jonathan Larson dirigido por Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Garfield stars in tick, tick... BOOM!, the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Garfield won a Tony Award for his performance in Angels in America on Broadway. Watch a clip of Garfield performing '30/90' from the film now!

When somebody creates something so magnificent, so beautiful, so full of emotion and humor and, yes, color and light, there is never enough time. Whether your hero is 35 or 91, their passing will come far too soon for everybody’s taste.

Stephen shares an inside look to all aspects of his newest project, from the research, to the writing, to casting, through production. He recalls acting in a production of tick, tick... Boom! in college, already having reverence for Jonathon Larson and more.

Watch a new performance video of Alexandra Shipp and Vanessa Hudgens performing 'Come to Your Senses' from tick, tick...BOOM! Watch the new performance video now! The film also stars Andrew Garfield, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, and more.

Netflix has released the complete 'Sunday' sequence from tick, tick...BOOM!, complete with numerous Broadway cameos. Sung by Andrew Garfield, the clip features appearances by Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Andrew Dé Shields, Reneé Elise Goldsberry, Daphne Rubin Vega, Phillipa Soo, Chuck Cooper, and more.

This Giving Tuesday, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is giving back, with a goal of providing 80,000 healthy meals for people who do not have enough to eat this winter. You can help by making a donation tomorrow. Donations will be matched dollar for dollar by generous donors Jodi and Howard Tenenbaum and Elizabeth Armstrong, if $100,000 is raised by the end of the day.

Netflix has released a new clip from the recent film adaption of tick, tick...BOOM! Watch Andrew Garfield perform 'Swimming' now! The film is the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The cast also includes Alexandra Shipp, Robin dé Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry, and more.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930-2021)

In the wake of Stephen Sondheim's passing, there has been an outpouring of grief from the Broadway community and beyond. Read them all here.

For a quarter of a century, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece RENT has inspired us to choose love over fear and to live without regret. Its immeasurable emotional impact has forever changed the world of musical theatre.