Review: tick, tick … BOOM! (StoreyBoard Entertainment)
A suitably minimalist Australian premiere for the creator of Rent’s humble autobiographical show.
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist since the 1990s, interviewing the likes of Sir Andrew Davis and Renée Fleming, and contributing to publications such as The Age and Opera (UK). Based in Melbourne, she’s passionate about opera, theatre and anything Baroque.
A suitably minimalist Australian premiere for the creator of Rent’s humble autobiographical show.
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