Lauren Waters is a TV and Movie Feature Writer for Collider. When she’s not writing about her favorite shows, she is the Beauty Editor and a columnist at Fizzy Mag. She is also a playwright, focusing ...
Artists suffer, and fail, and work miracles, sometimes in the same frazzled measure of their lives. The late Jonathan Larson, who died at 35 in the final week of rehearsals for his off-Broadway (then ...
In the early 1990s, struggling New York theater composer Jonathan Larson wrote and performed “tick, tick … BOOM!,” an anxiety-riddled rock monologue inspired by his failure to achieve artistic success ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda is nearly an EGOT winner at this point, but did you know that he didn't make his debut as a film director until 2021? Yep, the New York City-born songwriter behind Hamilton and In ...
Alexandra Shipp and Vanessa Hudgens also star in the Netflix musical about 'Rent' playwright and musician Jonathan Larson, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. By Justin Lowe Known worldwide as a ...
In 1990, RENT composer Jonathan Larson turned 30 years old and felt he had nothing to show for it. He wrote about that feeling in his autobiographical musical, tick, tick… BOOM! which is now a movie ...
Larson (Andrew Garfield) is a 29-year-old New Yorker with dreams of becoming the future of musical theatre. He’s been working on his piece titled Superbia for many years, but his 30th birthday looms ...
Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...
This review of Tick, Tick… Boom! originally ran in conjunction with its release in theaters. It has been updated for the film’s Netflix release. In 1990, Rent writer-composer Jonathan Larson turned 30 ...