Tina Shepard, Jack Wetherall, and Lizzie Olesker in Shimmer and Herringbone.
Photo: Maria Baranova
Fifty years into whatever we’ve chosen to do with our lives, may we all be as vigorous, mischievous, and curious as Talking Band. The company—founded by Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet in 1974—is celebrating half a century of experimental theater-making, and in barely three months, it’s premiered as many new shows. The Following Evening, written for Maddow and Zimet by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, was a gorgeous meditation on coupledom, creative labor, and the passage of time; in its own way, so was Existentialism, based on the work and lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir…
