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Freakonomics Radio641. What Does It Cost to Lead a Creative Life?For years, the playwright David Adjmi was considered “polarizing and difficult.” But creating Stereophonic seems to have healed him. Stephen Dubner gets the story — and sorts out what Adjmi has in common with Richard Wagner. SOURCES:David Adjmi, author and playwright. RESOURCES:"The West End is enjoying a theatre revival. Can Broadway keep up?" by Daniel Thomas (Financial Times, 2025).Lot Six: A Memoir, by David Adjmi (2020).Stereophonic, (2023). EXTRAS:"How Is Live Theater Still Alive?" by Freakonomics Radio (2025)."How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway," by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
2025-07-1846 min
The Play PodcastStereophonic by David AdjmiEpisode 098: Stereophonic by David Adjmi Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: David Adjmi Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. It is 1976, and a fictional rock band are holed up in a studio in California attempting to record their much anticipated second album. The pressures of an inflated studio budget and rais...2025-07-111h 09
The TLS PodcastDON'T STOP...... thinking about tomorrow. This week, Michael Caines on a musical inspired by a classic album; and Toby Lichtig talks to Mike Berners-Lee about the future of cliimate action at the Guernsey Literary Festival.'Sterophonic', by David Adjmi, Duke of York’s Theatre, until October 11'A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How to Get It', by Mike Berners-LeeProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-06-2650 min
MickeyJoTheatreStereophonic (Duke of York's Theatre, West End) - ★★★★★ REVIEWSTEREOPHONIC has recently opened in the West End, and Mickey-Jo has already seen it twice!The play, written by David Adjmi and directed by Daniel Aukin, had an acclaimed off-Broadway run and transferred to the Golden Theatre, where it was nominated for a record number of Tony Awards, winning multiple including the 2024 Tony Award for Best New Play.Now playing at the Duke of York's Theatre with some new cast joining returning company members, here's Mickey-Jo's full review of the West End production...• 00:00 | introduction01:48 | synopsis / ov...2025-06-2433 min
The London Theatre ReviewRuth Wilson, Stereophonic and 4.48 PsychosisStar of His Dark Materials, Luther and so much other stuff, the incredible Ruth Wilson, talks to Nick Curtis about starring in a very little-revived Eugene O'Neill play A Moon For the Misbegotten. She also talks faith, creativity and roles for older women. Nancy is very excited because the show she saw and adored on Broadway, Stereophonic, has just transferred to the West End. For legal reasons it is very much NOT about Fleetwood Mac making Rumours...but the band members are packing up, shacking up and falling out - it's written by David Adjmi with...2025-06-2239 min
Front RowWill Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studioStereophonic is a play about the creative process, power dynamics and fraught personal relationships of a 1970s rock band. It won a Tony and many other awards on Broadway. Now Stereophonic has come to the West End. Playwright David Adjmi and Will Butler, sometime of Arcade Fire, who has written the music, discuss their own artistic process as they created it. Plus Skin from Skunk Anansie on their first LP in almost a decade, news of a new exhibition shedding light on painter Joseph Wright of Derby's artistic process and Alexander Larman joins Antony Gormley to pay tribute to...2025-05-2742 min
The Second Studio Design and Architecture Show#444 - Morris Adjmi, Founder and Principal of Morris Adjmi ArchitectsThis week David and Marina of FAME Architecture & Design are joined by Morris Adjmi, founder and principal of Morris Adjmi Architects. The three discussed Morris’s childhood, architecture education and experiences; modern & historical architecture expressions; early career and working with Aldo Rossi; the Scholastic Building; Morris Adjmi office founding & operations; analog vs digital in architecture; and more. This episode is supported by Integrated Projects • Autodesk Forma & Autodesk Insight • Programa • Learn more about BQE CORE SUBSCRIBE • Apple Podcasts • YouTube • Spotify CONNECT • Website: www.secondstudiopod.com • Office • Instagram • Facebook • Call or text...2025-04-151h 17MickeyJoTheatreSTEREOPHONIC is coming to the West End! | Broadway's best play announces London transfer and US TourToday it was announced that STEREOPHONIC, the hugely acclaimed Broadway play, would transfer to the West End and embark on a US Tour later this year.The play, written by David Adjmi and directed by Daniel Aukin, had an acclaimed off-Broadway run and is now playing at the Golden Theatre, where it was nominated for a record number of Tony Awards, winning multiple including the 2024 Tony Award for Best New Play.Check out today's news recap for a little more insight into why this play is so celebrated, what Mickey-Jo thought of it on Broadway and everything we know...2025-01-0813 min
MiddlebrowEmbrace The Event w/ David AdjmiTony award-winning playwright David Adjmi (Stereophonic) explores the creative aftermath of success. We chat about the tensions between artistic authenticity, creative ambition, and the weight of accomplishment.2024-12-041h 06
Back To OneWIll BrillHe was in “The OA,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and played Roy Cohn in “Fellow Travelers,” but the stage is where Will Brill has found the most satisfaction and success recently, in “A Case For The Existence of God,” “Uncle Vanya,” and, just this year, as Reg in “Stereophonic” on Broadway, for which he received a Tony Award. On this episode he talks about building Reg by starting with his voice, why following playwright David Adjmi to a bar was a pivotal move, the importance of directorial affirmation, how his pre-show ritual has changed, and much more. Back To One is the in-de...2024-08-2748 min
Backstage BabbleDavid AdjmiToday, I am thrilled to announce my interview with 2024 Tony award winning playwright David Adjmi, whose play Stereophonic has quickly become Broadway’s newest sensation. Tune in today for a deep dive into the making of that play, including its Reagan-focused political undercurrent, the plane trip that gave him inspiration, why he views his plays like jigsaw puzzles, the reason why some audiences don’t respond to the play, the site-specific production he originally imagined, how the pandemic foiled the initial plans for a Broadway production, how band practice created chemistry among the cast, the process of securing Playwrights Hori...2024-07-241h 34Freakonomics Radio593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a LivingBroadway operates on a winner-take-most business model. A runaway hit like Stereophonic — which just won five Tony Awards — will create a few big winners. But even the stars of the show will have to go elsewhere to make real money. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES:David Adjmi, author and playwright.Sonia Friedman, theater producer and founder of Sonia Friedman Productions.John Johnson, theater producer and co-founder of Wagner Johnson Productions.Tom Pecinka, actor.Sarah Pidgeon, actor. RESOURCES:"Tony Award Winners 2024: The Full List," by Rachel Sherman (The New York Times, 2024)."Everything to Know A...2024-06-2049 minFreakonomics Radio592. How to Make the Coolest Show on BroadwayHit by Covid, runaway costs, and a zillion streams of competition, serious theater is in serious trouble. A new hit play called Stereophonic — the most Tony-nominated play in history — has something to say about that. We speak with the people who make it happen every night. (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES:David Adjmi, author and playwright.Sonia Friedman, theater producer and founder of Sonia Friedman Productions.John Johnson, theater producer and co-founder of Wagner Johnson Productions.Tom Pecinka, actor.Sarah Pidgeon, actor. RESOURCES:Stereophonic, by David Adjmi, Will Butler, and Daniel Aukin (2023).Lot Si...2024-06-131h 05MickeyJoTheatreStereophonic (Golden Theatre, Broadway) - ★★★★★ REVIEWEarlier this year Mickey-Jo travelled to New York to see upwards of 20 Broadway and Off-Broadway Shows and during that trip he snagged a pair of rush tickets to see the transfer of the hit new play STEREOPHONIC.The play, written by David Adjmi and directed by Daniel Aukin, had an acclaimed off-Broadway run and is now playing at the Golden Theatre, where it has been nominated for a record number of Tony Awards.Check out this new review to find out why this just might be Mickey-Jo's new favourite show on Broadway right now...• 00:00 | introduction02:15 | synopsis / material10:07 | cast + creatives• 2024-06-1222 min
CBS Mornings on the GoReport: Lead Concerns with Kid Snacks | Grant Wahl's "World Class" Stories | "Stereophonic" Actors on Becoming a Convincing Band
One of Hip-Hop's most acclaimed songwriters has now been accused of sexual assault. The-Dream is an eight-time grammy-winner and long-time collaborator of Beyonce's. A lawsuit filed in California yesterday contains disturbing details -- stemming from claims he used his success to recruit, then sexually abuse, an up-and-coming artist named Channaz Mangroe around a decade ago.A Consumer Reports investigation found what the group calls "concerning levels of lead" in some veggie puffs, snacks designed for young kids. The brands behind the snacks say they're safe, but experts say no amount of lead is safe for kids. Senior c...2024-06-0533 min
CBS Mornings on the GoReport: Lead Concerns with Kid Snacks | Grant Wahl's "World Class" Stories | "Stereophonic" Actors on Becoming a Convincing BandOne of Hip-Hop's most acclaimed songwriters has now been accused of sexual assault. The-Dream is an eight-time grammy-winner and long-time collaborator of Beyonce's. A lawsuit filed in California yesterday contains disturbing details -- stemming from claims he used his success to recruit, then sexually abuse, an up-and-coming artist named Channaz Mangroe around a decade ago.A Consumer Reports investigation found what the group calls "concerning levels of lead" in some veggie puffs, snacks designed for young kids. The brands behind the snacks say they're safe, but experts say no amount of lead is safe for kids. Senior c...2024-06-0529 min
Marks & Vincentelli: A Theatre PodcastChecking in with StereophonicIt’s another crowded week in our virtual studio as once again we welcome three guests at once — and we can handle them!It’s always interesting to check in with a play months into its run, and after a transfer to Broadway: How has the show evolved? What’s happening with the staging and the cast? Playwright David Adjmi dropped by Marks & Vincentelli in January to talk about the genesis of Stereophonic; now he’s come back with director Daniel Aukin and actor Will Brill to tell us how the show is going — especially as it’s earned the m...2024-06-0350 min
The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales2024 Tony Nominations RecapFull list of 2024 nominees here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/theater/tony-awards-nominations.htmlFind more of The Theatre Podcast at http://bpn.fm/ttpBest Musical- Hell's Kitchen- Illinoise- The Outsiders- Suffs- Water for ElephantsBest Play- Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Author: Jocelyn Bioh- Mary Jane, Author: Amy Herzog- Mother Play, Author: Paula Vogel- Prayer for the French Republic, Author: Joshua...2024-04-3010 min
Decoder RingMaking Real Music for a Fake BandPop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. This music doesn’t organically emerge from a scene or genre, hoping to find an audience. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on.In this episode, we’re going to use ‘Stereophonic,’ which just opened on Broadway, as a kind of case study in how to construct songs like this. The playwright David Adjmi and his collaborator, Will Butler formerly of the band Arcade F...2024-04-2441 min
Slate CultureDecoder Ring: Making Real Music for a Fake BandPop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. This music doesn’t organically emerge from a scene or genre, hoping to find an audience. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on.In this episode, we’re going to use ‘Stereophonic,’ which just opened on Broadway, as a kind of case study in how to construct songs like this. The playwright David Adjmi and his collaborator, Will Butler formerly of the band Arcade F...2024-04-2441 min
Slow BurnDecoder Ring: Making Real Music for a Fake BandPop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. This music doesn’t organically emerge from a scene or genre, hoping to find an audience. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on.In this episode, we’re going to use ‘Stereophonic,’ which just opened on Broadway, as a kind of case study in how to construct songs like this. The playwright David Adjmi and his collaborator, Will Butler formerly of the band Arcade F...2024-04-2441 min
The Roundtable with Robert BannonOpening NIght Coverage of "Stereophonic" Now On Broadway!Once in a while a show comes along that knocks the theatre world for a loop! This year is it Stereophonic! The story of a band in the midst of a crisis was a smash at Playwrights and now has transferred to the Golden on Broadway!We bring you chats with the creative team: WRITTEN BY DAVID ADJMI ORIGINAL SONGS BY WILL BUTLER DIRECTED BY DANIEL AUKIN!Plus this all-star cast! Learn about them now, because they are about to BLOW UP!FEATURING WILL BRILL / ANDREW R. BUTLER / JULIANA CANFIELD / ELI GELB / TOM PECINKA...2024-04-2338 min
Marks & Vincentelli: A Theatre PodcastA chat with David AdjmiIt’s been a minute and we apologize but all good things, right? As you may have heard, there has been a big change in Peter’s life — as in, he took a buyout and is now longer with the Washington Post. Watch out for Free Agent Peter Marks!The good news is that we are sticking with this podcast. Now that we are back on track, here is, at last, our interview with David Adjmi. We’ve long admired his work but we both were taken aback by how good his latest play, “Stereophonic,” was. The pre...2024-01-0346 min
Playwrights Horizons Footnote*In Process: An Interview with Will ButlerPlaywrights Horizons' Literary Director Lizzie Stern sat down with Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning musician Will Butler, formerly of Arcade Fire, to talk about the songs of Stereophonic. Their conversation spans childhood theater, the magic of songwriting, and includes a special snippet of Will singing one of his songs from the show.
David Adjmi's Stereophonic, with songs by Will Butler and directed by Daniel Aukin, was recently named the "Best Play of 2023" by the Washington Post. Learn more at phnyc.org.2023-12-0617 min
American Theatre's OffscriptOffscript: David Adjmi in Stereo and 3 DimensionsThe writer of 'Stereophonic' talks about his obsessions with detail and destruction, and North Carolina correspondent Lauren Van Hemert fills us in on the Research Triangle theatre scene.2023-11-1700 min
American Theatre OffscriptOffscript: David Adjmi in Stereo and 3 DimensionsThe writer of 'Stereophonic' talks about his obsessions with detail and destruction, and North Carolina correspondent Lauren Van Hemert fills us in on the Research Triangle theatre scene
2023-11-171h 13
Playwrights Horizons Footnote*On Stereophonic: David Adjmi and Will ButlerIn conversation with playwright David Adjmi and Arcade Fire's Will Butler, discussing Stereophonic, the first show in our '23-'24 season.
Stereophonic
Written by David Adjmi
Songs by Will Butler
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Tickets available now at phnyc.org
Podcast produced by Chelcie Parry2023-09-0620 min
FORM: Conversations on CommunicationCommunication & ManipulationIt's a MINISODE EPISODE featuring director and choreographer Sam Pinkleton.Like all our conversations, this segment is unfiltered. This episode contains explicit language and mature content, so listen at your discretion as we aim to fully form mindful ideas and language.Sam Pinkleton’s work as a director, choreographer, creative director, organizer, and educator is united by a belief that better worlds are possible. His past collaborations include work with the Dutch National Opera, Courtney Love, Carnegie Hall, James Corden, BAM, Soho Rep, David Henry Hwang + Jeanine Tesori, Anne Washburn, The Dance Cartel, Vi...2021-04-0506 min
New Books in Performing ArtsDavid Adjmi, "Lot Six" (Harper, 2020)Lot Six (Harper 2020) is a moving and hilarious memoir from playwright David Adjmi. The book traces Adjmi’s search for his identity, during which he becomes an observant yeshiva student, a club kid, a fashionista, a film nerd, a teenage Nietzschean, and finally a playwright. It is a memoir about feeling like the world is against you, yet simultaneously yearning to fit in. Adjmi’s memoir also traces his evolving relationship with his family and his community, from whom he desires to escape even as he finds himself drawn continually back to them.Andy Boyd is a playw...2020-11-301h 00
The Maris ReviewEpisode 75: David GoodwillieDavid Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. He has been drafted to play professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and was an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. He lives in Brooklyn. His latest novel is Kings County.This Episode's Sponsors:This episode is brought to you by Amazon Publishing and the new short story collection Nothing Like I Imagined by Mindy Kaling. Download today at amazon.com/mindystories.Re...2020-10-2937 min
Keep the Channel OpenDavid AdjmiDavid Adjmi is a writer and playwright based in Los Angeles, CA. In his new memoir Lot Six, David tells the story of how he found himself through art and the theater, growing up feeling like an outsider as a gay, atheist, artistic youth in a small and insular Syrian Sephardic Jewish community in Brooklyn. In our conversation, David and I discussed the craft of memoir, the process of constructing one’s own identity, and why his book isn’t structured like the typical gay narrative. Then in the second segment, we discussed how the pandemic is affecting our abil...2020-09-091h 17
The PEN PodEpisode 98: Building World in Memoir with David AdjmiOn this edition of The PEN Pod, we talk to playwright David Adjmi whose first foray into nonfiction is out now, a memoir called LOT SIX. The book contends with his evolution as a writer, his vulnerabilities, and growing up in a Syrian Jewish community in New York. He talks of moving from playwriting to nonfiction and how theater is evolving amid the pandemic.
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Author: David Adjmi
Narrator: Micky Shiloah
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 06-23-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 29 ratings
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre-bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the a...2020-06-2312h 06
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Title: Lot Six
Author: David Adjmi
Narrator: Micky Shiloah
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 06-23-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 29 ratings
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre-bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of th...2020-06-2312h 06Relish: This Best-Selling Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.Lot Six by David AdjmiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/4476to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Lot Six
Author: David Adjmi
Narrator: Micky Shiloah
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 06-23-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 29 ratings
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre-bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the a...2020-06-2312h 06
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Live at the Lortel: An Off-Broadway PodcastRebecca Taichman
REBECCA TAICHMAN. 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Indecent written by Paula Vogel (Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Vineyard Theater, Broadway at The Cort Theatre). Rebecca has directed on and Off-Broadway, new plays and classics, musicals and opera. She has worked with writers Jocelyn Bioh, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Gurira, Enda Walsh, Brian Selznick, Kirsten Greenidge, Nico Muhly, David Adjmi, and Stephen Karam among others. She has worked at theaters such as The Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe...2019-12-0353 min