Whatever your entertainment needs, we got your back (and hopefully your mind) with Queerty’s weekly “Culture Club” column with some of the highlights of new releases, streaming shows, classics worth revisiting, and what to drink while you watch.Lin-Manuel Miranda adds the title of “director” to his ever-expanding resume with this musical biopic of Rent composer Jonathan Larson.
tick…tick…BOOM! began life as a one-man show performed by Larson off-Broadway. Following his death and the posthumous success of Rent, Larson’s family and playwright David Auburn reworked it into a more traditional musical.Now Miranda, along with screenwriter Steven Levenson rework the material yet again, transforming it from a show performed by Larson into a film.