As a creative and an artist, the ticking of time can be as consuming as the desire to create itself. Unbeknown to himself, performer, composer and lyricist Jonathan Larson was running against a too-swiftly ticking clock as he worked to create the next great American musical, or at the very least, something to be remembered by.

It would eventually come in the form of RENT, which saw Larson’s dream of “bringing music theatre to the MTV Generation” a reality in a musical that broke records and changed the face of musical theatre. Tragically, Larson didn’t live to see this success play out: he unexpectedly died of an aortic dissection the night before RENT’s Off-Broadway premiere.

Written before RENT, Larson’s three-handed, semi-autobiographical musical Tick, Tick … Boom! is an ode to his own ravenous desire to manifest something as great as his idols. It’s a piece that speaks to anyone who’s dared venture into the world of the arts, and it’s one that, in the right hands, can be achingly resonant.

Good Time Theatrics brings Larson’s love letter to musical theatre and those who create it to the Late Night slot at the Old Fitz Theatre, a fitting location given the space’s...