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Last week, at a time when Broadway producers were worried about last-minute campaigning and how performers are going to change at the United Palace with limited dressing room space, a fact buried in a New York Times article shook the theater community. It was there that it was announced that The Public’s Under the Radar festival was no more.

The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.

Patrons become performers in 'A Thousand Ways,' with structured phone calls and meetings that form three-part work

"A Thousand Ways," by experimental theater troupe 600 Highwaymen, features three parts that require audience participation. In part one, audience members will dial in from wherever they are at a

New York Theater Returns in ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and Starring You in ‘A Thousand Ways: Part Two’ Tim Teeman At one time, New York City’s Meatpacking District was all the things our Seven Deadly Sins guide excitedly told us it was: industrial, edgy, sexually transgressive, with the indisputably brilliant Florent feeding every demographic that passed its portal. Oddly, the façade of Florent is one of the few visible ghosts of those times in the cleaned-up, moneyed, booz...

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call will precede the in-person second part event. The Public Theatre Facebook/@publictheater The Public Theater will reopen for live performances this summer with the second part of the A Thousand Ways trilogy by experimental theatremakers Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen. In-person participants will be able to experience A Thousand Ways (Part Two): An Encounter June 8-August 15. Part Two: An En...

The Public Theater announced today the New York premiere of A THOUSAND WAYS (PART TWO): AN ENCOUNTER, inviting audiences to take part-in-person-in the continuation of this acclaimed work from 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone). While the first part engaged two remote participants-often thousands of miles apart-in an automated hour-long phone call, PART TWO: AN ENCOUNTER brings together new pairs of strangers to share physical space in the creation of a private piece of thea...

“The fact that you can’t see the person on the other side of the line means that they come to life even more, because you get to create an image of them. It’s like theater of the mind,” Silverstone said.

Interactive theater at Walker Art Center hopes to bring us out of isolation An interactive event through the Walker is designed to help strangers connect.  March 1, 2021 — 3:42pm Text size Copy shortlink: When is the last time you made a new friend? Chatted up a stranger? If youre like most people, its been months. Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde, theatermakers who are known as 600 Highwaymen, want to change that with "A Tho...

The piece, part of the theater's all-digital Without Walls Festival, will have two more audience interactions over the next several months.