LYRICAL LIFE STORY Part musical, part biopic, tick, tick…BOOM! details the struggles and successes of a composer and playwright at a pivotal point in life as he navigates life and strives to fulfil his creative ambitions. In telling Jonathan Larson’s story, Alice Brooks ASC and director Lin-Manuel Miranda explored blurring the line between dreams and … Read more
We seem to live in constantly interstitial time now, always in the wake of “defining events”- until the next set of befores and afters comes along. Hence, just when we thought we’d figured out how best to live with the prevalence of the Delta variant, here comes Omicron, discovered and travelling the world, all since our last column. “Interstitial time” ain’t what it used to … Read more
GIRL AND THE HOOD Alice Brooks captures the vibrant spirit of New York’s immigrant neighbourhood in In the Heights. When Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted his theatrical musical sensation Hamilton in 2015, only stage aficionados were aware that he had created a previous Broadway smash with his semi-autobiographical work In the Heights. Now, after a yearlong delay due to the pandemic, the film version of … Read more