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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 Encounter invites two theatregoers—strangers—into a shared space to create a private piece o...

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 theater. Seated in an empty room, at opposite ends of a table, and separated by a pane of plexiglass, pa...

“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 you're like most people, it's been months. Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde, theatermakers who are known as 600 Highwaymen, want to change that with "A Thousand Ways." Sort of theater of the mind, the performance piece brings two ticket-buying participa...

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