Abby and Michael have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2025, the 100th anniversary of the fellowship. It’s a huge honor and we are so grateful to receive the support and to be in cohort with the incredible list of fellows, past and present.

Thank you, Andy, for this thoughtful (as always) writing about The Following Evening for Culturebot.

“Part of what I found brilliant about The Following Evening was the way these elements nested together. We see the four performers working to discover the rhythm and pace of the performance, even as we are watching the final product. We see Paul and Ellen today, in this moment, and remembering together 1970, their first meeting. And when we are watching the show in the present, we know that the “present” we are watching is also in the past. Babies are born, relationships negotiated, time passes, meaning is made through the art of attention and juxtaposition, it accumulates and evaporates. The show is made the way that lives are lived: it is, they are, intertwined, entangled, as are we all.

The show ends and we return to quotidian time; we are more expansive, more capacious, more aware of our interconnectedness than when we entered. It seems like magic but it is not an illusion, it is not a trick.  It is a glimpse into what is all around us all the time. And it is awesome.”

We couldn’t be more proud that The Following Evening was recognized at the 68th Obie Awards:
Talking Band (Paul and Ellen and Tina) received an award for lifetime achievement. Watch Paul’s acceptance here and Ellen’s here!
Jian Jung received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Set Design. See Jian’s acceptance speech here!

A Thousand Ways continues this summer and fall all over the world. Part Two will be running in Sydney, Australia at the Vivid Sydney Festival. Part Three will be popping up in Kosovo, Italy, and France. Please check our calendar for details, dates and ticket info.

Thanks to PAC NYC and all of you who came to see The Following Evening. 

Thanks, Lauren Collins-Hughes & Jeanette Spicer, for this extensive feature & photo essay about Paul, Ellen, Abby, Michael and The Following Evening in the New York Times. (Oh, and if the shows are sold out at PAC, keep checking back as tickets are sometimes released last minute. Or follow us on social, and we’ll find a way to get you in.)

Landed here in Groningen, one of our homes-away-from-home for five preview performances of The Following Evening at the Noorderzon Festival. So great to finally get this work in front of audiences before we bring it home next year.