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One of my best friends is the company manager of this play and I couldn’t be prouder of her.
Also, strange and vaguely threatening tap dancing.
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My friend’s stepson was super involved in producing this play when it was off Broadway; now it’s 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, Jack’s granddaughter) and her assigned therapist Loyd (starring Peter Friedman of “Succession” 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 “connecting trauma A to trauma D.” She’s a Zoomer, he’s 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. There’s quite a plot twist here too. Go see it before it closes in September! The play’s 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
currently there is a run of “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow“ by Halley Feiffer, a modern adaptation of chekov’s “three sisters” . yea I’m plugging myself here but I got nyc underground cinema production design darling Stephen Phelps to do my sets and just proud of the show en general ✨
Jan 21, 2024
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i went to see the new broadway production of cabaret this saturday on a complete whim (knowing next to nothing about the show) and i have not been able to stop thinking about it since. what a fun and entertaining yet deeply distressing experience— the intentional, immersive atmosphere brought me (almost blindly…) into the story. i found myself entranced in the hypnotizing world of the kit kat club, then immediately brought out of it by certain impactful moments; the feeling that i was a part of the show in a way made these moments hit me hard, and at times i felt my stomach drop as i was faced with nauseating reality. it can be so easy to move on with your life as though issues affecting others don’t affect you. as my friend lewin put it, it takes effort and a conscious choice not to become evil. if you don’t actively think in opposition to something, you are as good as enabling it— and i intend to treat my own moral views and opinions with more intentionality going forward.
not to mention, i saw this performance immediately after attending a protest against the current trump regime, and the themes of complicity in 1930s germany felt all too relevant to the politics of today. in all, a striking and upsetting, yet somehow incredibly entertaining, show that i feel will stick with me for a while. also, a very queer show. beautiful.
Apr 10, 2025
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Sly Stone passed away, and his death is getting very overshadowed by Brian Wilson. Both legends, and both deserve time in the sun.
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