The nation's oldest queer theater organization, SF's Theatre Rhinoceros, is celebrating its 32nd season this year without a permanent space to call home, having left their space on 16th Street due to lease issues. They're currently roaming and calling themselves Rhino on the Road, and their current production Tick, Tick... Boom! is playing at the Eureka Theater on Jackson and Front Streets in the Golden Gateway complex.
Tick, Tick... Boom! is a little-known and not often performed work by the late Jonathan Larson, the man who wrote Rent and then died of an undiagnosed heart condition shortly before the show opened on Broadway in 1996. For this reason alone, especially for Rent-fanatics, this production is worth seeing. It's a curiosity and a charmingly melancholy piece set in 1990, and, like Rent, includes a sub-plot about AIDS.
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