<em>Tick, Tick … Boom</em> Is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Best Work Since <em>Hamilton</em>
His filmmaking debut turns a small-scale musical by the creator of <em>Rent</em> into an inventive piece of cinematic biography.
Jonathan Larson is someone who writes like he is running out of time. That’s the underlying message of “30/90,” the first song in his original musical and an energized ballad about the theatrical composer’s worries that he hasn’t accomplished enough—at the age of 30. As he hammers away at a piano, Larson notes that his idol, the composer Stephen Sondheim, contributed to his first Broadway show at the age of 27. Meanwhile, Larson is still toiling in
