50th Anniversary Season

The Following Evening
Featuring Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet.
Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC)
A TRIBUTE
TO THEATER
AN ART FORM
THAT VANISHES

Existentialism
Premieres February 23, 2024 – March 10, 2024 at La MaMa
Created and directed by Anne Bogart.
Existentialism, is an urgent, funny, and unsettling work created and directed by the luminary theater artist, Anne Bogart in collaboration with Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet. It takes place in two small houses side by side in a vast space. A woman lives in one. A man in the other – a couple, both close and apart. In the course of their daily routines they grapple with the big question: how to create a meaningful life in a world where the only certainty is the inexorable passage of time.
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours

Shimmer and Herringbone
Written by Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet
Costumes by Olivera Gajic
Music by Ellen Maddow
Directed by Paul Zimet
May 1-19 at Mabou Mines @122CC
150 First Avenue, New York, NY
For this new work, Talking Band has commissioned the acclaimed costume designer, Olivera Gajic to be the lead artist. Drawing inspiration from Gajic’s costume designs, Maddow and Zimet wrote Shimmer and Herringbone (set in a clothing store by that name). The show, with music composed by Maddow for a live string trio, is a farce of chance encounters in which people tired of their old selves hope to find the clothes that will fit their new ones.
Shimmer and Herringbone is presented by Talking Band in Association with Mabou Mines
A STORE
A STRING TRIO
CHANCE ENCOUNTERS
CLOTHES THAT FIT
Existentialism
Premieres February 23, 2024 – March 10, 2024 at La MaMa
Created and directed by Anne Bogart.
Existentialism, is an urgent, funny, and unsettling work created and directed by the luminary theater artist, Anne Bogart in collaboration with Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet. It takes place in two small houses side by side in a vast space. A woman lives in one. A man in the other – a couple, both close and apart. In the course of their daily routines they grapple with the big question: how to create a meaningful life in a world where the only certainty is the inexorable passage of time.

Shimmer and Herringbone
Costumes by Olivera Gajic
Music by Ellen Maddow
Directed by Paul Zimet
May 1-19 at Mabou Mines @122CC
150 First Avenue, New York, NY
Shimmer and Herringbone is presented by Talking Band in Association with Mabou Mines