Introduction

The director of the film adaptation, Lin Manuel Miranda, and the screenwriter Steven Levenson join Washington Post Live. Jonathan Larson was the creative mind behind Rent, a show that forever changed Broadway after its release in 1996. Tic-tac-boom is a musical that Jonathan wrote about a young man hoping to break in the world of musical theater. It has an uncanny resemblance to his own struggles, the struggles he experienced himself on the path toward creating that seminal play rent.