The downtown troupe’s latest show finds a vital use for technology

“At this point, the video projections will go there, across two cabin doors,” says Paul Zimet, founder of the theatre troupe Talking Band and writer-director of their latest show New Islands: Archipelago.

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TDF recently caught up with playwright and actress Claudia Shear, well-known to theatre audiences for Dirty Blonde and for the semi-autobiographical solo show Blown Sideways Through Life. Shear is currently in previews at New York Theatre Workshop with Restoration, about a Brooklyn art restorer who travels to Florence to restore Michelangelo’s David.

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The Tony-nominated actress discusses her starring role in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida

Melissa Errico has won acclaim as leading lady of musicals—her Broadway credits include Amour, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and the 1993 revival of My Fair Lady—and of plays, such as Major Barbara and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Irish Repertory Theater.

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“A performer finds the humor in the dark side of her life”

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