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November 14, 2020

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The New York Times featured Abby & Michael and A THOUSAND WAYS in the Sunday Arts section this weekend.

“It sounds odd to describe an hourlong telephone chat, which is what “A Phone Call” is, as a work of theater, and I’m not even sure that it qualifies. Yet the performance, which requires two anonymous strangers and one automated voice to guide them through a structured conversation, employs the tools of theater. And it achieves more goals of theater — telling stories, triggering imagination, nurturing empathy, fostering connection — than nearly any other show I have experienced since pre-pandemic days.”

Read the full piece here.

Above photo of A&M by Lauren Lancaster.

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call is featured in this week’s New Yorker magazine, in a piece by Alexandra Schwartz:

“Duo Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone, who go by the moniker 600 HIGHWAYMEN and are known for devising inventive, sincere theatre of a kind that makes urbane audiences fatted on cynicism feel wonder afresh … The term “experimental” tends to signal an ambition to flaunt difficulty and occlude meaning, but 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s experiments with theatrical form are distinctly generous. That is the case with “A Thousand Ways,” which takes a simple premise and turns it into magic.”  Read the full piece here. And note the excellent illustration by Raphaelle Macaron.

A THOUSAND WAYS illustration by Cass Sachs-Michaels

October 10, 2020

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A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call has started running around the world. We just completed a run at On The Boards (Seattle) and Dublin Theatre Festival.  The Irish Times calls it: “An expressive gesture of hope. ⭑⭑⭑⭑.” And here’s a feature on the project by Crosscut: “For an hour, I forgot the world around me as I pieced together a blurry picture of a stranger from the clues in her voice and the breadcrumbs of her backstory. Sitting in the dark, I came as close to a theater experience as I’ve had in a long time.” (read the full piece here).

June 30, 2020

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Next week, we’re doing something we’ve never done before.
Our new performance A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter will premiere at the beloved Festival Theaterformen (July 2-12) in Braunschweig, Germany.  We will stay put, here in the United States, unable to travel to see this project come to life for the very first time.

Toi, toi, toi to Martine, Wolfram, Lena and the team at Theaterformen. We can’t wait to hear all about it.

(Stay tuned for updates on future life of A Thousand Ways).

April 25, 2020

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We’ve made our very first (short) film.

Thanks to Onassis Foundation for commissioning us as a part of their ENTER series, a platform for artists to create new works during the COVID quarantine.

Take a look here. (And we recommend watching the other projects, too). Hope everyone is staying safe, and taking care of yourself and one another.

November 5, 2019

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Into a week of early development rehearsals with Paul Zimet and Ellen Maddow of the Talking Band, as we build a new piece for Paul and Ellen to perform. Stay tuned in 2020 for more details about this new project.

August 10, 2019

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We’re almost there! Thank you to Lumberyard Center for Film and Performance and Mount Tremper Arts for providing us with space and time to work on MANMADE EARTH. Next stop: Invisible Dog and the Crossing the Line Festival. Brooklyn here we come!