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My friendâs stepson was super involved in producing this play when it was off Broadway; now itâs been promoted to The Show (Helen Hayes Theatre). Incredible to think he just turned 30. I sure as hell wasn't producing a Broadway show back then!
It concerns Jane (a traumatized content moderator working in the Bay for an unnamed tech company, played with panache by Sydney Lemmon, Jackâs granddaughter) and her assigned therapist Loyd (starring Peter Friedman of âSuccessionâ fame) - 90 minutes, just the two of them on stage, deep in dialogue about the mental hazards of her job and the relative remove of his professional âconnecting trauma A to trauma D.â Sheâs a Zoomer, heâs a Boomer. Add tension. Stir.
Having spent the last decade living in Berkeley working in tech, this is all pretty on-the-nose for me.
I loved it. Thereâs quite a plot twist here too. Go see it before it closes in September! The playâs the thing.
PS: the Times seemed to like it as much as I did: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/theater/job-review-broadway.html
Aug 8, 2024
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Simply one of the best written and acted plays Iâve seen last year. I came for the Succession hype and left as a Sydney Lemmon fan.
Feb 18, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winning play about a group of Iranians studying for the TOEFL. I would have been perfectly happy even watching an extended 3-hour version
Great story, beautiful dialogue, good pacing, excellent lighting design, and not to mention a group of incredible actors and awesome direction â all Broadway debuts! This is what happens when you let people just tell their story without letting âmarketabilityâ get in the way. Now go do your part and show Broadway that these are the shows we want to see with your wallets and your butts in seats
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â¤ď¸
Mar 27, 2024
âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ¤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnât say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ¤
Mar 23, 2024